On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:58:20PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 23:51 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > I understand and support reasons behind recently added commit
> > "fetch2/git: Add sanity check to ensure we really did fetch the correct
> > revisions"
> >
> > but there is at least one corner case which IMHO isn't supported now, in
> > meta-webos we have yajl recipe with:
> >
> > # corresponds to tag 1.0.12
> > SRCREV = "17b1790fb9c8abbb3c0f7e083864a6a014191d56"
> > SRC_URI = "git://github.com/lloyd/${PN}"
> >
> > the problem is that 17b1790fb9c8abbb3c0f7e083864a6a014191d56 exists only
> > in 1.0.12 tag and not in any branch
> >
> > OE @ ~/webos/projects/yajl $ git branch -a --contains
> > 17b1790fb9c8abbb3c0f7e083864a6a014191d56
> > OE @ ~/webos/projects/yajl $ git tag --contains
> > 17b1790fb9c8abbb3c0f7e083864a6a014191d56
> > 1.0.12
> >
> > There is "1.x" branch which contains parent of
> > 17b1790fb9c8abbb3c0f7e083864a6a014191d56 but is missing this one commit.
> >
> > Unfortunately we cannot "disable" this check by explicitly setting empty
> > branch or setting tag=1.0.12
> >
> > I can ask yajl owner to push that one missing patch to 1.x branch, but
> > there were no changes in last 11 months so I don't know how responsive
> > he will be and there could be similar case in different recipes where
> > the upstream could be completely gone.
> >
> > As side note, should bitbake do the same check when tag=foo is
> > specified?
>
> This is an interesting corner case. I have this patch lying around which
> fixes the issue where a given tag is only available in specific
> branches:
>
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=rpurdie/t2&id=d211662ca92ee084c0c4a3d343e0b1f28ab853ac
>
> however that won't help this case. There is also an issue where the
> ls-remote command can match multiple branches/tags since its unanchored:
>
> git ls-remote X foo
>
> refs/heads/foo
> refs/heads/broken/foo
> refs/tags/foo
> refs/tags/broken/fooyes we discussed this one in http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/bitbake-devel/2013-August/003725.html which I haven't finished yet, sorry :/ -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com
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