[OE-core] [PATCH] buildhistory.bbclass: metadata-revs show repo parent

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Trevor,

On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 17:32:03 Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On 03/12/16 16:54, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > On 12 March 2016 at 04:28, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com
> > 
> > <mailto:twoerner at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >     openembedded-core/meta =
> >     master:00d3fd571a8d261d065b43f5cf3076a381843984
> >     
> >         meta-openembedded/meta-oe =
> >     
> >     master:a1e135a499998add7575682bf53db5e02e753580
> >     
> >         meta-openembedded/meta-gnome =
> >     
> >     master:a1e135a499998add7575682bf53db5e02e753580
> >     
> >         meta-rpb          =
> >     
> >     master:203903ca6f4e8df09bef6ea3c6e899d07eca8df9
> >     
> >         meta-96boards     =
> >     
> >     master:2be59f0d381b5ec173d7fc24f3ae14aaf47b8649
> >     
> >         meta-qcom         =
> >     
> >     master:32fcda819acb8ec485d9ab05108d554f807bf75d
> >     
> >         meta-browser      =
> >     
> >     master:a3789a4168fcd42f1cdf5b5febe2c779a9467919
> >     
> >         meta-linaro/meta-linaro-toolchain =
> >     
> >     master:367f784b831938dc508b7d472342d2d0d6ed9769
> >     
> >         meta-poky/meta    =
> >     
> >     master:37b61b059031e3c272a929b834e12fd83f46598c
> >     
> >         meta-poky/meta-poky =
> >     
> >     master:37b61b059031e3c272a929b834e12fd83f46598c
> > 
> > Why are you pulling oe-core/meta and poky/meta into the same build
> > considering they're literally the same layer?  You should either drop
> > oe-core/meta or poky/meta from your bblayers.
> 
> Ok, thanks; good point.
>
> > However the output showing the full remote URLs seems a sensible
> > improvement to me.
> 
> My hesitation is whether we want to replace the existing
> buildhistory/metadata-revs with my "improvements" or whether I should
> just create a second file with the updates. I don't want to break
> anyone's process should they have come to rely on that file being as it is.

metadata-revs was intended to be consumed by scripts rather than humans, so 
I'd rather not change its format unless absolutely necessary.

Besides, if you fix the problem with what you've checked out, do you need to 
make the change at all?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre