[OE-core] [PATCH 0/4] linux-yocto: consolidated update

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 16:06 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> Here's a consolidated update that I've had under test in one
>> way or another for 3 weeks now. Tom Z and others have also been
>> using parts of this for their work, so it has seen a reasonably
>> wide set of testers.
>>
>> This series further streamlines working with linux-yocto* based
>> recipes/repositories by breaking the last branch based triggers
>> in the tooling. Branches were the most important piece of
>> information when working with the tools and a linux-yocto repository,
>> but this has now been generalized, and BSP descriptions (among
>> other things) are now found by MACHINE and kernel type only.
>>
>> With this, KBRANCH now becomes what it was supposed to be, an
>> human readible indication of the branch that is supposed to be
>> built, and one that the kern-tools will validate. If that branch
>> is not validated, an error is thrown. If the default branch is
>> left as-is, then the in-tree description leaves you on the
>> proper branch and all is well.
>>
>> I also have a collection of bug fixes to the tools, including
>> support for having a meta branch not called 'meta'.
>>
>> I'd recommend that this go through some AB tests, and I'll be
>> around if there's a corner case that I managed to miss.
>
> I think
>
> http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org:8010/builders/nightly-tiny/builds/199/steps/shell_34/logs/stdio

Judging by the timestamps on your two email, is this not addressed by
the workaround
for git's behaviour ? On the surface, it looks to be the same thing,
since a branch that
should exist in the repository isn't there.

I'll fire of a poky-tiny build for qemu here, to see if I can
reproduce this one.

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> is due to something in this series...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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