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

[Khem Raj]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Holger Freyther <holger+oe 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...


well what if some used svn export <rev> to generate a tarball so it
will break for him too.
so distributors should package the SCM metadata and the user needs to
have SCM tools to
get the configure through. I would have added a script to update a
constant var in src
which would denote this incremental version like what gcc does with dates.
>
> PS: I liked the --exclude patch a lot too...
>
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