[oe] [Bitbake-dev] [PATCH] fetchers: Use tar --exclude pattern to remove SCM files

[Holger Freyther]

On 10/24/2010 08:35 PM, Khem Raj wrote:

>>
>> this is used in all efl recipes and I've noticed it in elementary only
>> because python-elementary depends on such new version.
> 
> Do you have a list of recipes which use this ? I am sure with git it
> will be hard to use such a thing
> as the git revs are random and simlarily many other SCMs


Speaking as upstream co-author of OpenBSC. We are using something like this to
get the revision from the last tag of the repository. If someone is doing a
make dist(check) we will copy a special version file into the tar.gz and use
that instead.

>From an upstream point of view I think it is acceptable to say that the ones
that build stuff from a SCM (in contrast to a tarball) should have the files
of the SCM around...

PS: I liked the --exclude patch a lot too...