[oe] Use AUTOREV and have revision/commit number in package name?

[Holger Hans Peter Freyther]

On Thursday 20 August 2009 05:28:02 Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> All,
>
> I've been playing with AUTOREV for some time now and also asked this
> question before on the IRC, but so far there seems to be no easy solution
> to the problem in subject.
>
> Usually, when a package is built from an SCM repository, SRCREV is set to a
> specific commit#/tag etc. And SRCREV is also usually referenced from PV
> (like PV = "X.Y.Z-scmr${SRCREV}") to have the revision/commit number in the
> package name, to easily track different builds.
>
> Now, when SRCREV = "${AUTOREV}", AUTOREV gets resolved into a Python
> function, which does the magic of fetching the latest snapshot from a
> repository. But now if PV contains references to SRCREV, it breaks
> (undesrandably), since SRCREV gets resolved in do_fetch and PV needs to be
> resolved early on.
>
> Are there any standard ways to work around this limitation?

Check the mailinglist archives... Openmoko has deployed a solution that has 
fixed that about 1 1/2 years ago.

Short answer:
	- Do not put SRCREV into PV, e.g. create a new var called SRCPV
	- Populate SRCPV with something based on the SRCREV..


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