[OE-core] [PATCH] gstreamer1.0-omx: use mulitple SCMs to fetch submodules

[Belal, Awais]

Hi Koen,

Please see the comments here: http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/85413/

BR,
Awais

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From: Koen Kooi [koen at dominion.thruhere.net]
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 5:17 PM
To: Nicolas Dechesne
Cc: Belal, Awais; Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] gstreamer1.0-omx: use mulitple SCMs to fetch submodules

> Op 29 dec. 2014, om 13:41 heeft Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org> het volgende geschreven:
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Awais Belal <awais_belal at mentor.com> wrote:
>> The gstreamer omx package uses a submodule 'common' which
>> is fetched by the configure script. This approach fails
>> on non-network builds as the fetcher tries to look upstream
>> for the submodule.
>> We now use multiple SCMs, one for the main omx package and
>> the other for the 'common' submodule so it is available in
>> the downloads_dir for later use.
>>
>
> we have the same issues with all the others gstreamer1.0-*_git.bb
> recipes, don't we? maybe we should fix them all. i am not sure if
> there is a nice way to do it for all recipes, like with a .inc file,
> to avoid duplication..

Why not use the 'gitsm' fetcher, that's what it's there for after all?