From: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
To: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>,
Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: Request to move "gitpkgv.bbclass" from meta-oe to oe-core
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 07:36:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54377059.10606@topic.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP9ODKpERB+agUBv3-BgPM3JRBQiZ-QKVhONvuSkRFUWi_ZkqQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/10/2014 12:15 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> 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...
>
> Mike I am also an user of gitpkgv but I must to agree with Richard
> here. Moving this to OE-Core will just make it worse. It is way better
> to prepare a patch and add support for it on the fetcher code of
> BitBake.
Give me some pointers on what you're talking about here, and I'll be happy to
try and implement it. Currently I have no idea as to what is "wrong" with the
gitpkgv approach, and I also have no clue as to what it is you want to have
implemented in the git fetcher.
Kind regards,
Mike.
Met vriendelijke groet / kind regards,
Mike Looijmans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-10 5:36 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
2014-10-09 22:15 ` Otavio Salvador
2014-10-10 5:36 ` Mike Looijmans [this message]
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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