Re: [PATCH 2/9] file: 5.23 -> 5.24

Martin Jansa
2015-07-28T13:48:22Z

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On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 02:08:20PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 28 July 2015 at 03:12, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com> wrote:
>
> > * Use git repo rather than tarball since the original SRC_URI is not
> > stable, it is not reachable sometimes.
> >
>
> Personally speaking I see this as a recipe for a release of file which just
> happens to use git to fetch the tarball (and presumably that hash is the
> 5.24 tag). In situations like this I prefer to see the recipe called
> file_5.24.bb as there's no point having a giant PV including git SHAs when
> it's just the release.

until someone sets SRCREV_pn-file = "${AUTOREV}" somewhere and git SHAs
in PV suddenly gets very useful.

Personally speaking I prefer recipes with git SCM in SRC_URI named
<foo>_git.bb and PV set to "A.B.C+gitr${SRCPV}".

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