[OE-core] BB_NO_NETWORK broken for git

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-12-05 08:09, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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.

So I just [luckily] picked two recipes that have incorrect SRC_URI??
How many others will there be?  I'd wager most all since very few of
them actually mention a branch, just a revision.

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