[bitbake-devel] [OE-core] RFC: Versioning of git recipes (and incremental PR)

[Richard Purdie]

On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 11:55 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 17:23 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >> I like to idea of a single updating place. What I dislike is AUTOINC
> >> not being taken care in the fetcher.
> >>
> >> In this case any GIT revision changes, the AUTOINC won't bump as usual
> >> (without PR server)?
> >
> > Why do you need AUTOINC to bump? The only reason we have increments in
> > the fetcher is for package upgrading...
> 
> Yes but in this case the fetcher won't change AUTOINC and you'll have
> same revision even when changing SRCREVs. This will break the upgrade
> path for people not using PR server, no?

We're going to need the PR server for upgrade paths in future regardless
so that shouldn't be an issue.

Cheers,

Richard