[oe] SVN fetcher behaviour

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 21:56 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> On 10/5/07, Hans Henry von Tresckow <hvontres at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The default of "1" is set in conf/bitbake.conf. The reason for this is that
> > any svn recipe without an explicit SRCREV set will cause parsing to fail if
> > the build machine or the svn server is off line. If you can live with this
> > limitation, then you could comment that line out to get the default
> > behavior.
> >
> But I think what was asked if a default can be set that (a) does not
> break parsing when servers are unreachable; and (b) does fetch HEAD
> instead of revision 1.

The answer to this is that its not possible. We need to be able to
connect to the server to work out which version we're going to build and
set a sane PV value. Nothing else inbetween will work *properly* given
the way OE/Bitbake works.

Cheers,

Richard