[bitbake-devel] Problem using Subversion in Pyro

[Alan Levy]

OK, I have an idea how to do it cleanly and elegantly without breaking the existing scheme but it'll take time I haven't got right now so it may be a while.

Alan

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Kanavin [mailto:alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com] 
Sent: 19 May 2017 11:10
To: Alan Levy; Richard Purdie; bitbake-devel at lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [bitbake-devel] Problem using Subversion in Pyro

On 05/19/2017 12:57 PM, Alan Levy wrote:

> I can see that you don't want to force the host system to support 
> subversion and I concur that the resulting error message is unhelpful.
>
> However under Morty this worked just fine so Pyro breaks existing 
> recipes in a way that's very hard to understand, even if the solution 
> is easy once you know how.  I would suggest that as well as providing 
> a helpful error message the documentation should also explain what's 
> going on and how to fix it.

Alan, may I suggest that you write the necessary patches for this and send them in?

Thanks,
Alex