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

[Robert Yang]

On 04/21/2016 03:42 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, I saw that PR Server will change git0 -> git1 -> git2 when SRCREV
is changed, it works.

// Robert

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>