From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SKHde-0003Db-IV for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:16:46 +0200 Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 17 Apr 2012 16:07:19 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="154881177" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.120.85]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 17 Apr 2012 16:07:18 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: Ulf Samuelsson Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:07:17 +0100 Message-ID: <2900608.HO3vnnHahd@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.8.2 (Linux/3.0.0-17-generic-pae; KDE/4.8.2; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4F8DF031.60109@emagii.com> References: <4F8DF031.60109@emagii.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: RFC: Support for R/W git in bitbake X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:16:46 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Wednesday 18 April 2012 00:35:29 Ulf Samuelsson wrote: > Today bitbake supports read only git access in recipes. > For various reasons, I would like to be able to do recipes > which would check out in a read/write mode. Could you elaborate on "various reasons"? Would the new externalsrc bbclass be useful in your case? Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre