[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] BB_NO_NETWORK: Fallback to local source for git lsremote

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 08:34 +0000, Tobias Hagelborn wrote:
> Change made to enable building offline also with git tag references
> in SRC_URI.
> 
> If BB_NO_NETWORK is set, fallback to search for tags and revisions
> in local DL_DIR / GITDIR in order to avoid network access.

I'm not sure I agree with this since you'd get different build results
depending on whether BB_NO_NETWORK is set or not.

I think if BB_NO_NETWORK is set, its reasonable to assume that the
configuration should be locked down and that BB_NO_NETWORK should not
have other side effects like this.

It would also make it very hard to detect unlocked configurations
during testing which currently are quite easily identified.

Cheers,

Richard