Re: [docs] [PATCH 11/11] migration-guides/{migration,release-note}-5.2: update for 5.2 release

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

On Fri, 2025-03-28 at 17:03 +0100, Quentin Schulz via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> Hi Antonin,
> 
> On 3/28/25 2:07 PM, Antonin Godard via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> > Document changes between 0e91a1dabf27 ("adwaita-icon-theme: upgrade 47.0
> > -> 48.0") up to b3c21a23ad3a ("migration-guides/release-notes-5.2:
> > update for upcoming 5.2 release") in Poky.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
> > ---
> >   documentation/migration-guides/migration-5.2.rst   | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   .../migration-guides/release-notes-5.2.rst         | 22 ++++++++++++++++++
> >   2 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-5.2.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-5.2.rst
> > index 59a2782f2..c54f054c7 100644
> > --- a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-5.2.rst
> > +++ b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-5.2.rst
> > @@ -178,6 +178,32 @@ This should now be replaced by::
> >   
> >      UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT ?= "0x20008000"
> >   
> > +
> > +Git fetcher: support for multiple revisions per URL removed
> > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > +
> > +The support for having multiple Git revisions per URL in :term:`SRC_URI` was
> > +removed from BitBake, which means the following syntax is not supported
> > +anymore::
> > +
> > +   SRC_URI = "git://some.host/somepath;branch=branchX,branchY;name=nameX,nameY"
> > +   SRCREV_nameX = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> > +   SRCREV_nameY = "yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"
> > +
> > +This was rarely used in the core repositories, and this removal simplifies the
> > +code logic in several places.
> > +
> 
> Can we suggest the user how to transition away from that? What was this 
> even supposed to do?

It would only have ever been useful with bare clones where there wasn't
a checkout. The only user I know of used to be the kernel recipe but
that no longer does this.

Cheers,

Richard