On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Andrei Gherzan <and...@gherzan.ro> wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Andre McCurdy <armccu...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Paul Barker <pbar...@toganlabs.com> >> > wrote: >> >> On 30 May 2017 5:08 p.m., "Khem Raj" <raj.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.ja...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> * use latest revision in rpi-4.11.y branch >> >>> * using AUTOREV causes bitbake to run git ls-remote on the github.com >> >>> repository in order >> >>> to convert AUTOREV to currently latest SRCREV even when you don't >> >>> use >> >>> linux-raspberrypi_dev >> >>> at all, just happen to have meta-raspberrypi layer in your >> >>> bblayers.conf, that's bad for >> >>> people who want to be able to build without network access >> >>> (completely >> >>> from premirror) >> >>> >> >> >> >> These branches get rebased often so locking SRCREV caused another >> >> kind of problem. what we can do is. >> >> >> >> 1. Let user like you override the SRCREC via a bbappend or conf file. >> >> so change the assignment to ?= >> >> 2. Delete the recipe completely. We lose some of upstream testing. >> >> >> >> We should be able to skip the recipe if it isn't selected as the >> >> preferred >> >> version and/or provider of "virtual/kernel". I'm out at the minute so >> >> can't >> >> look at it now but will try to take a look later this week. >> > >> > The linux-yocto-dev.bb recipe contains an example of doing that. >> > >> >> ah perfect. Thats what we need here >> >> >> http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb?h=master#n28 >> >> please rename the recipe to be linux-raspberrypi-dev.bb and add the magic >> above and send a v2 >> > > Using the magic above we still hardcode a revision there. So if a user wants > to compile the recipe without setting the preferred provider it will fail.
what will be the usecase ? when you have a different kernel selected but woould like to compile yet another kernel that rev can be a well known rev like branchpoint. Moreover, I think if someone wants to use the dev recipe then its expected that they switch to using AUTOREV or some other local mechanism for pinning if needed. > > -- > Andrei Gherzan -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
