[OE-core] "Fetcher failure: SRCREV was used yet no valid SCM was found in SRC_URI"

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i'm sure it's something i'm doing but i'm playing with an OE
configuration for qemuarm and experimenting with "bitbake -e" and got
this:

$ bitbake -e core-image-minimal | grep SRCREV
... snip ...
# expansion of SRCPV threw ExpansionError: Failure expanding variable
SRCPV, expression was ${@bb.fetch2.get_srcrev(d)} which triggered
exception FetchError: Fetcher failure: SRCREV was used yet no valid
SCM was found in SRC_URI
# SRCREV=INVALID
SRCREV="INVALID"
... snip ...
$

  i can appreciate *why* this is happening if the fetcher code thinks
that's a valid value for SRCREV but there's no SRC_URI value for
core-image-minimal.

  i've googled a bit and perused the code but i'm guessing someone
else can probably see what's happening in seconds.  the above doesn't
appear to hurt anything, but it certainly seems like a bogus error.

rday

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