On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > wrote: > > > > certainly about to embarrass myself again, but from > > u-boot_2011.06.bb: > > > > ... > > # This revision corresponds to the tag "v2011.06" > > # We use the revision in order to avoid having to fetch it from the repo > > during parse > > SRCREV = "b1af6f532e0d348b153d5c148369229d24af361a" > > > > PV = "v2011.06+git${SRCPV}" > > ... > > > > i don't know what that means -- how does using that "revision" > > prevent fetching? i would simply have defined the SRC_URI using the > > tag value, so i'm not sure what benefit i'm getting out of the above. > > You should look for the patch that made that change and read the > commit message.
ah, quite so ... i had to pop into the 2011.03 recipe file to get that info from "git blame" but i now get it, thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core