[oe] SRCPV migration - How SRCPV works!

[Koen Kooi]

On 23-11-09 16:12, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:00:26PM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> On 23-11-09 15:29, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 14:31 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>> On 23-11-09 13:15, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As I understand it you'll lock locking down the local build revisions
>>>>> with Angstrom anyway?
>>>>
>>>> Dunno about that, ideally the SRCPV merge should have no impact at all
>>>> on existing distros, but it looks like everyone will be forced to lock
>>>> revisions/counts down.
>>>
>>> How is locking the counts down using LOCALCOUNT any different to the
>>> current situation?
>>
>> In the current situation you lock down SRCREV and change PV,PR
>> accordingly. In the new world you lock down SRCREV, increase
>> localcount (per recipe or globally) and change PV,PR accordingly.
>
> Why do you need to change PV,PR if you bump LOCALCOUNT?

Because the version might have gone from 1.4 to 1.6?

regards,

Koen

>
>> I just went from a 2 step error prone situation to a 3 step error
>> prone situation. And I need to track an *extra* variable as well
>> now.
>
> I see only 1 step in one place (SRCREV+LOCALCOUNT in sane-srcrevs or
> recipe). And as long as its in the same file, it can be a bit less
> error-prone then change of SRCREV in sane-srcrevs and PV/PR bump in
> recipe.
>
>> regards,
>
> regards,
>