[OE-core] How to use externalsrc with git workspace

[Cliff Brake]

On 03/29/2016 08:28 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 08:25 -0400, Cliff Brake wrote:
>> On 03/28/2016 06:28 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>>> I tried nobranch=1;rev=HEAD, but then that conflicts with
>>>> ${AUTOREV}.
>>> Did you just try nobranch=1 and leave rev to get set from SRCREV?
>> That will parse, but it puts the wrong git rev in the PV:
>>
>> The following package gets built:
>>
>> blkqcl-app-tune_1.4+gitr1+a97fcb58e6-r1.0_cortexa9hf-vfp-neon.ipk
>>
>> But, the actual version of the source that gets built is
>> 0edb656fc9a1a77d75eaa49a17586deb4c986bb1.
>>
>> a97... is the version of the branch (default is master) in the
>> workspace.
>>
>> So this would work if we did not care what gitv got put in the PV. 
>>  There is
>> also the issue of bitbake not rebuilding the source if you change the
>> git
>> version of the workspace, but the branch happens to not change.
> At least from my perspective, this is what *should* work and the fact
> it doesn't is a bug somewhere. Adding extra things to the fetcher would
> likely just workaround it. Filing a bug report for it would be the
> likely next step.

Thanks, bug submitted: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9351

Cliff