[bitbake-devel] [RFC PATCH] svn.py: Stop SVN from directly pulling from an external layer w/o fetcher

[Mark Hatle]

On 5/16/19 9:41 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 14:02 -0400, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> Add a new option to the svn fetcher url "externals=allowed".  This will allow
>> a user to enable svn co w/ externals.  However, this does avoid the fetcher,
>> network access and mirror systems.
>>
>> By default we no longer allow externals in the checkout.  This ensures a
>> deterministic download.  The system does attempt to identify SVN repos that
>> have externals enabled, and will warn the user.
>>
>> In the future we would like to parse this list and see if the items are already
>> in the SRC_URI for that recipe, but with SVN being in limited use these days
>> that extra work is likely not worth the trouble.
>>
>> Add test cases that generated a local SVN tree, with an external source
>> set to github bitbake in svn format.  One test case checks that externals are
>> ignored, and one checks that they in downloaded.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>
>> ---
>>  This was done in response to the patch from Krzysztof Zawadzki and the resulting
>>  discussion to make this the default instead of optional.
> 
> Patch looks good to me but the autobuilder didn't like it:
> 
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/56/builds/465/steps/7/logs/step1d

What is the host system type on the autobuilder?  Everything I see in the
traceback is as intended.  So it's likely a version or argument change in a
different version of SVN.

--Mark

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
>