[OE-core] BB_NO_NETWORK broken for git

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 07:09 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2013-12-05 06:50, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 05:18 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >> I try to use a local source mirror, fully populated with packages, so I
> >> can deliver a complete (no network required) bundle to my customers.  This
> >> has recently been broken.
> >>
> >> I can no longer use BB_NO_NETWORK=1 for git recipes, since this revision:
> >> commit 2354250a95eab484459f41f8715ae112295c2174
> >> Author: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> >> Date:   Mon Nov 18 17:17:16 2013 +0000
> >
> > Its actually the metadata that has the issue. The commit specified is
> > not on the master branch, its on the cross_prelink branch so the fetcher
> > is justifiably getting upset.
> >
> > When the network is present it does a complete reset to upstream and
> > then assumes the revision is present though which is something we might
> > want to fix too.
> >
> > For now we can at least correct the metadata to point at the right
> > branch. I've sent out a patch accordingly.
> 
> Does this work for other git based repositories?  My example was for
> prelink, but it seems to fail for me for any SRC_URI that uses git.
> For example, matchbox-keyboard also fails under the same test scenario.

Its the same problem. The commit referenced is not on master but on a
different branch. The URL needs fixing to point at the right branch.

Cheers,

Richard