Re: SCM fetched recipes without a SRCREV - e.g. libgee-native

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 October 2009 12:47:41 Koen Kooi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Lately some people have started adding recipes that fetch from an SCM
> > without adding a srcrev either to the recipe or to sane-srcrevs.inc.
> > That is bad. Unacceptable even.
>
> I agree, It must be possible to do
>
> 1.) bitbake -cfetchall task
>
> then remove network and
>
> 2.) bitbake task...
>
> if that is not the case we suck.

  *yes*, that's what i'd forgotten.  i'd tried just

  $ bitbake -c fetch ...

but after i started a bitbake, there was still some downloading.  so
how much extra work does "fetchall" do as a command as opposed to
just "fetch"?  thanks.

rday
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