[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] u-boot: set SRCREV to a git revision instead of a tag reference

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Tue Jun 21 17:34:54 UTC 2011


Op 21 jun 2011, om 19:29 heeft Paul Eggleton het volgende geschreven:

> If we use a tag here then bitbake has to connect to the repository to find
> out the corresponding revision (so it can expand SRCPV which is part of PV,
> which amongst other things is needed to determine whether or not the
> package has to be rebuilt.) This occurs at parse time; on machines behind a
> firewall or with no network access this can be a problem.
> 
> We wish to avoid unnecessary network accesses and network access in our
> default configuration during parse time is even worse. Substituting the
> git revision corresponding to the tag prevents bitbake from having to
> contact the remote repository in order to expand PV.
> 
> Addresses [YOCTO #1186]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
> ---
> meta/recipes-bsp/uboot/u-boot_2011.03.bb |    4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/uboot/u-boot_2011.03.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/uboot/u-boot_2011.03.bb
> index 07f0609..25af69b 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-bsp/uboot/u-boot_2011.03.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/uboot/u-boot_2011.03.bb
> @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1707d6db1d42237583f50183a5651ecb \
> 
> FILESDIR = "${@os.path.dirname(bb.data.getVar('FILE',d,1))}/u-boot-git/${MACHINE}"
> 
> -SRCREV = "v2011.03"
> +SRCREV = "19b54a701811220221fc4d5089a2bb18892018ca"
> PV = "v2011.03+git${SRCPV}"
> -PR="r4"
> +PR = "r5"


Can you add a comment above the rev in the lines of "bitbake sucks, we need to use a rev instead of a tag, this one maps to 2011.03"?



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