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From: Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Improving SRCPV? (was: Re: [PATCH 3/7] gptfdisk: update to 1.0.0)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:29:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C8993C.2070303@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1439162974.30467.156.camel@linuxfoundation.org>

On 08/10/2015 02:29 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:

>> its always preferable to have PV contain SRCPV for recipes using SCM based fetch mechanism. Don’t drop it
>
> There has been discussion about this in other threads and the conclusion
> reached is that where there is a specific version being selected, having
> PV of that specific version is a good thing. With "1.0.0+gitXXX" its
> unclear if its really 1.0.0 or not.

Yes. When SCM is used to fetch a pristine tagged release, adding SRCPV 
just adds unnecessary clutter. My understanding is that SRCPV is only 
there to enforce package version going forwards when changing one git 
snapshot for a later git snapshot, when both are based on the same 
tagged release.

Alex


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-10 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-07 14:28 [PATCH 0/7] More recipe reporting fixes Alexander Kanavin
2015-08-07 14:28 ` [PATCH 1/7] fotowall: update SRC_URI to use github instead of qt-apps.org Alexander Kanavin
2015-08-07 14:28 ` [PATCH 2/7] distcc: update SRC_URI to not use Google Code Alexander Kanavin
2015-08-08 19:49   ` Khem Raj
2015-08-07 14:28 ` [PATCH 3/7] gptfdisk: update to 1.0.0 Alexander Kanavin
2015-08-08 19:48   ` Khem Raj
2015-08-09 23:29     ` Richard Purdie
2015-08-10 12:29       ` Alexander Kanavin [this message]
2015-08-07 14:28 ` [PATCH 4/7] oprofile: reorder SRC_URI lines to fix upstream version check Alexander Kanavin
2015-08-07 14:28 ` [PATCH 5/7] xf86-video-omapfb: switch SRC_URI to debian git repo Alexander Kanavin
2015-08-07 14:28 ` [PATCH 6/7] stress: update checksums to match upstream tarball, use BPN and BP in SRC_URI Alexander Kanavin
2015-08-07 14:28 ` [PATCH 7/7] recipeutils.py: allow all characters in regexes used to parse version strings Alexander Kanavin

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