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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
Cc: OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: Request to move "gitpkgv.bbclass" from meta-oe to oe-core
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:56:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1412884615.871.24.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5436445C.5020503@topic.nl>

On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 10:16 +0200, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> In partial reply to my own question, this has been discussed 2 years ago, but 
> apparently nothing ever came out of it.
> 
> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-February/056050.html
> 
> So once more the request to be able to get sane version strings for git repos. 
> Can we please just move gitpkgv. That's like five minutes work, and if anyone 
> (e.g. me) feels like building something better, he or she is free do submit 
> that and get rid of the gitpkgv class once it's obsolete.

I do feel quite strongly that this is something which should get
improved in the fetcher itself. That is why I've pushed back on the
patch since if I take it into OE-Core, there is even less incentive to
fix the real problem...

Cheers,

Richard



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-09 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-08 14:39 Request to move "gitpkgv.bbclass" from meta-oe to oe-core Mike Looijmans
2014-10-09  8:16 ` Mike Looijmans
2014-10-09 19:56   ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2014-10-09 22:15     ` Otavio Salvador
2014-10-10  5:36       ` Mike Looijmans
2014-10-10 15:03         ` Paul Eggleton
2014-10-20 14:00           ` Mike Looijmans
2014-11-03 14:18             ` Mike Looijmans

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