[OE-core] AUTOREV vs AUTOINC?

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> >  perusing the file meta/classes/kernel-yocto.bbclass and saw the
>> > following snippet around line 287:
>> >
>> >        # nothing to do if SRCREV is AUTOREV
>> >        if [ "${SRCREV_machine}" = "AUTOINC" ]; then
>> >                # restore the branch for builds
>> >                git checkout -f ${KBRANCH}
>> >                return
>> >        fi
>>
>> You can completely ignore this, I've tossed it all out in pending
>> updates. But if you set AUTOREV and dump the SRCREV .. you'll see
>> that it actually is AUTOINC.
>
>  cheerfully ignored, except that the poky ref manual should be
> updated to reflect this.

I'll leave that to others to confirm, the above was my observation when working
on my meta-kernel-dev efforts. It may or may not be completely correct :)

Bruce

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