[oe] [meta-networking][PATCH] openflow: Add latest from git

[Burton, Ross]

On 5 September 2013 05:39, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> The meta-virt recipe had the same _1.0.bb extension, and it's SRCREV lines up
> with the openflow-1.0.0 tag in the repository:
>
> --------
>
> commit 5ccca75a69f99791659bcfbcf35353ab1921320a
> Author: Glen Gibb <grg at stanford.edu>
> Date:   Thu Dec 31 16:00:53 2009 -0800
>
>     docs: Update ChangeLog to include 1.0.0 information
>
> :100644 100644 2f13dd7... aa0e92e... M  ChangeLog
>
> -------
>
> So it's definitely an option to keep that recipe around as the tagged 1.0, and
> create a _git that tracks newer changes (where "newer" is relative, 2011 is
> the latest commit in that repo).

FWIW, I massively prefer "releases that are taken from git" like this
(where its a git fetch on a hash that is the tag of the releases) to
be versioned correctly like _1.0.bb instead of _git.bb for clarity and
future alternatives such as true git snapshot or multiple versions.

Ross