[oe] SVN fetcher behaviour

[Philippe De Swert]

Hello all,

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 11:57 +0100, Martyn Welch wrote:
> It is failing to download gconf-dbus using "gconf-dbus_svn.bb". It seems
> that the script does not specify a revision and it therefore trying to
> download revision 1. This fails.
> 
> I have managed to get the script to continue buy hacking the script to
> get it to download the current revision (608), by adding "rev=608" to
> the SRC_URI.

I ran into a similar problem recently and it seems you need to edit
../org.openembedded.dev/conf/distro/include/sane-srcdates.inc or make
sure it is included in your distro.

> I've looked at
> http://www.openembedded.org/user-manual&dpage=src_uri_variable, which
> (under "SVN") describes the behaviour of the svn fetcher. This doesn't
> seem to specify what the default behaviour of the svn fetcher is when no
> revision is specified, I'd assumed it would be the "head", though I am
> now having some doubt.

I think this should be the default behaviour, unfortunately it is not.
The expected behaviour is fetch the latest revision and build it but it
dies not.  I think ib general it is a great improvement for managing svn
revisions, but it sucks at building the latest and newest.

Cheers,

Philippe