[oe] SRCPV migration

[Holger Hans Peter Freyther]

On Monday 16 November 2009 10:39:16 Richard Purdie wrote:

> SRCPV solves one particular set of bugs where local build revisions were
> only injected into revisions part of the time. This change makes things
> more consistent and predicable in that its always injected.
> 
> Nobody has ever written code to share the bitbake persistent data
> between machines. It shouldn't be that hard with some kind of database
> server but nobody has done it.

Partially true, with the "git rev-list | wc -l" trick used at Openmoko we had 
a "global" number. The problem with the counting is if people use (rebase and 
such on the system...)

z.