Re: [PATCHv2] qemu: Upgrade to 2.7.1

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 15:29 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 16:01 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> > 
> > On 01/20/2017 09:44 PM, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > In contrast to Alexander, I would also keep
> > > http://wiki.qemu-project.org/download/${BP}.tar.bz2 in
> > > qemu_2.7.1.bb
> > > with SRC_URI =+ because then there can be a qemu_git.bb with a
> > > different
> > > URL than the one above.
> > I would discourage creation of such separate _git recipes, unless
> > there 
> > is a clear benefit to the whole of oe-core. They are almost always 
> > untested and neglected, and eventually removed because they're
> > outdated 
> > and broken and no one cares.
> I wasn't suggesting to add one, just using the possibility that one
> might want to add one as the rationale for keeping the download URL
> for
> the tarball out of the .inc file.
> 
> It's all rather subjective and hinges on the likelihood of adding a
> _git.bb (don't include it in the .inc) vs. adding more than one
> versioned .bb (then including the common download in the .inc reduces
> duplication).

There is actually an alternative proposal somewhere in bugzilla which
would be to leave enough markup that we can easily enable a git
version. That markup mostly being the git:// url in a variable. Ross
was looking at that.

Cheers,

Richard