[OE-core] Use of multiple GIT repositories in SRCREV but updating PV

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 14:24 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 04:41, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > See linux-yocto as an example. You need to name the two git uris:
> >
> > SRC_URI = "\
> > git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-a;protocol=git;name=machine \
> > git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-b;protocol=git;name=meta \
> > "
> 
> I did it locally and it ...:
> 
>  - does the clones in DL_DIR file
>  - gets the right SRCREV for both
>  - gets the right SRCPV
> 
> However on unpack it fails; it always use S as '${WORKDIR}/git' even
> if I change it in the recipe.
> 
> Something seems broken on bitbake support for it.
> 
> Clues?

Just to follow up for the benefit of the mailing list, we were missing a
patch Holger submitted a while back for this problem which has now
merged into bitbake master. You can now tell the fetcher to use
something other than "git" as the checkout directory.

Cheers,

Richard