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

[Chris Larson]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Holger Freyther
<holger+oe at freyther.de<holger%2Boe at freyther.de>
> wrote:

> 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...


I don't think its necessarily the fact that we're building from an SCM
that's the differentiating factor here, it's the build from a branch as
opposed to a tag.  The tagged sources in an scm may be (though aren't
always) exactly the same as the tarball contents, in which case the scm
files shouldn't be necessary.  Ideally, the buildsystems would work with or
without them, but I agree, I guess we may have to revert the patch :(
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics