[oe] SRCPV migration - How SRCPV works!

[Koen Kooi]

On 23-11-09 13:29, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 11/23/2009 07:15 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 09:07 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> On 22-11-09 20:05, Martin Jansa wrote:
>>>
>>>> Every git recipe in OE tree should have some sane hash stored in
>>>> conf/distro/include/sane-srcrevs.inc
>>>
>>> The cabal decided that checksums are "part of the metadata" and belongs
>>> in the recipes. I don't understand why SRCREVs are so different. For
>>> SRCREVs my life would be a lot easier if all SRCREV where put in their
>>> respective recipes. Distros can always do
>>>
>>> SRCREV_pn-foo = "bar"
>>> PV_pn-foo = "1.2.3+gitr$SRCPV"
>>>
>>> in their distro.conf if needed. Due to scoping we do need some include
>>> for EFL_SRCREV, since those recipes are tightly tied together.
>>
>> FWIW I dislike it that we have SRCREVs elsewhere. There is a problem
>> (bug?) with bitbake that makes this necessary though and that bug is
>> hard to fix :(.
>
> The difference between checksums and SRCREV's is that there is one
> checksum per file, but different distro's may use different versions of
> the same software.

And that makes it not part of the metadata?

regards,

Koen