[OE-core] About PV = "0.0+git${SRCPV}"

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 15:22 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> There are several recipes in oe-core which has:
> PV = "0.0+git${SRCPV}"
> 
> These recipes don't have a release version, so we use
> "0.0+git${SRCPV}",
> but the package manager such as opkg/rpm/smart may not upgrade them
> correctly when the recipes is upgraded since we can't make sure that
> SRCPV_new > SRCPV_old.
> 
> How about we use date for these recipes which doesn't have a release
> version? For example, if we integrate them to oe-core today, then
> PV = "20160421". And when we upgrade them in the future, we can
> change
> the PV to that day. We can change all the current version 0.0 target
> recipes to today, and add a sanity check for version 0.0.

No, this is the whole idea behind having the PR Server which injects a
revision before the hash in SRCPV. We have the same problem with other
git recipes even where there are versions since the revision can change
and we need to be able to sort the versions correctly.

Cheers,

Richard