[oe] [meta-openwrt] PV for git versions for 17.01.4 upstream release, git for master?

[Khem Raj]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Daniel F. Dickinson
<cshored at thecshore.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wondering thoughts on using a package version with the git revisions of
> openwrt recipes that are in current stable (17.01.4) and using _git version
> for tracking upstream master?  Also in that case would it be necessary to
> use PREFERRED_VERSION for in e.g. openwrt.bbclass, or it a versioned recipe
> preferred to a git one, unless overridden?
>

Probably weakly define a global openwrt version e.g. OPENWRT_VERSION
in layer.conf
have two versions of recipes one for master and another one for
release. OPENWRT_VERSION
then can be overridden in local.conf if someone does not want to use
release version.
defining PREFERRED_VERSION for every recipe in layer.conf in meta-openwrt.

> Openwrt doesn't cut tarball releases of the sources that I am aware of, and
> only some of the code is on github; there's a lot at git.openwrt.org.
>
> (Oh and for those not in the loop, Openwrt and LEDE have re-merged; for
> those really not in the loop Openwrt was forked into LEDE project for
> a while).
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