Re: [OE-core] [RFC PATCH 1/3] version-check.conf: add mechanism for checking version mismatch

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

On Thu, 2025-03-27 at 12:22 +0100, Alexander Kanavin via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 at 07:22, Chen Qi via lists.openembedded.org
> <Qi.Chen=windriver.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> > The basic idea is to use qemu to run executables at build time,
> > extract
> > possible versions, and check if there's a mismatch found.
> 
> Should this check be in its own layer for now? If it's in core, there
> should be evidence that it's broadly useful and used (and no one's
> asked for it before as far as I'm aware), and it should be tested for
> correct behaviour and against regressions. I don't feel it meets
> these
> criteria at the moment.
> 
> Git fetcher has recently gained the ability to match up source
> revisions with tags specified in recipes, and will error out if
> SRCREV
> is set wrongly. We just need to update recipes to specify tags (with
> ${PV} in them somewhere, so they remain valid on version updates). So
> sending in those updates would be most welcome.

The new SRCREV vs tag code was my first thought when seeing this patch
too. 

It is a nice idea to check the version information and having something
somewhere to do it is nice but I'm not sure maintaining this in OE-Core
is the right thing to do for it...

Cheers,

Richard