[bitbake-devel] Git, AUTOREV and SSH

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 12:52 +0100, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there's a problem with the Git fetcher when used with AUTOREV, at least
> with SSH URIs. "git ls-remote" may output warnings on stderr, e.g.:
> 
> X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0
> 
> When this happens, "X11" becomes the SRCREV and the fetcher subsequently
> fails. Certainly, other warnings by Git, SSH or a different SCM or
> transport could appear under other circumstances. Even localized strings
> may appear. Fetch2 merges stderr into stdout on purpose [1], so I'm not
> sure a proper fix should look like.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 
> [1] See runfetchcmd() in lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py

Would the change in
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/bitbake-devel/2012-January/001771.html help?

I've still not had a chance to rebase and apply that patch :(

Cheers,

Richard