Re: BB_NO_NETWORK broken for git

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2013-12-05 06:50, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 05:18 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I try to use a local source mirror, fully populated with packages, so I
>> can deliver a complete (no network required) bundle to my customers.  This
>> has recently been broken.
>>
>> I can no longer use BB_NO_NETWORK=1 for git recipes, since this revision:
>> commit 2354250a95eab484459f41f8715ae112295c2174
>> Author: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
>> Date:   Mon Nov 18 17:17:16 2013 +0000
>
> Its actually the metadata that has the issue. The commit specified is
> not on the master branch, its on the cross_prelink branch so the fetcher
> is justifiably getting upset.
>
> When the network is present it does a complete reset to upstream and
> then assumes the revision is present though which is something we might
> want to fix too.
>
> For now we can at least correct the metadata to point at the right
> branch. I've sent out a patch accordingly.

Does this work for other git based repositories?  My example was for
prelink, but it seems to fail for me for any SRC_URI that uses git.
For example, matchbox-keyboard also fails under the same test scenario.

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