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

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:34:58AM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 20-08-09 09:10, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:52:58AM +0200, Holger Hans Peter Freyther 
>> wrote:
>>> On Thursday 20 August 2009 05:28:02 Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>>> 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..
>>
>> Ah, thanks! I was able to find your RFC message from last year on the 
>> Openmoko
>> mailing list:
>> http://markmail.org/message/v3s32gmxxqcaxpph
>>
>> I'll give it a try. Thanks.
>>
>> To be clear - it's not used in OE. While there is a single 
>> python-phoneutils
>> recipe, which references SRCPV, it is not being set anywhere, 
>> apparently...
>
> Take a look at 
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/log/?h=xora/angstrom-srcpv 
> :)

Thanks! More specifically:

http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?h=xora/angstrom-srcpv&id=453a13c7a68087895f4048410aba1a519ec99897

Any ETA for the merge back to .dev? :)

-- 
Denys