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

[Joe MacDonald]

[Re: [oe] [meta-networking][PATCH] openflow: Add latest from git] On 13.09.05 (Thu 10:01) Burton, Ross wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, since the SRCREV in the _1.0.bb recipe actually corresponds to the
1.0 release tag, I'm in agreement.  The proposed update from Laszlo also
now seems to justify having a _git.bb version, since it's pointing at a
(relatively) newer version of the recipe.

-- 
-Joe MacDonald.
:wq
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