Re: [PATCH] gcc-shared-source: Set empty SRC_URI

[Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com>]

On 09/25/2015 02:03 PM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:

>> gcc-source is the only gcc recipe meant to handle the fetch/unpack/patch
>> tasks, the other gcc recipes then depend on this.
>>
>> This approach has been creating some confusion for tools like the
>> archiver.
>> The simplest way to signal to these processes that there is no source
>> is to empty SRC_URI at the same time we disable the other tasks.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> This has broken the upstream version check for the gcc recipes, which
> was working fine before:
>
> http://packages.yoctoproject.org/

Actually, maybe the problem is not with this patch, but with the 
upstream version checker that defaults to 1.0 when the SRC_URI is empty 
or points to a local file. In that case, it should simply set the 
upstream version to the version of the recipe itself. I'll file a bug.


Alex