Hi, On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 17:40, Henrik Riomar <henrik.rio...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > We set the BUILDNAME (via local.conf) variable to the output of "git > describe --long --always" so this info ends up in /etc/version instead > of a date. (i.e to know the exact source version of the code > deployed on a target) > > This has worked fine for us up until 3.1.12, but now we just get a > date (201803...) in /etc/version. > > Note that since switching to Dunfell we were forced to set > BUILD_REPRODUCIBLE_BINARIES to 0, so the build system would not "mess > up" /etc/version, but not even that helps now. > > What's the official way to get something more useful than a date (in > the long past) in /etc/version? We use build image-buildinfo class: https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#ref-classes-image-buildinfo
Just add INHERIT += "image-buildinfo" to your local.conf to get the build info. Daniel > > Thanks, > Henrik > > >
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