[meta-freescale] linux-denx missing the needed hash

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Wed Feb 19 10:40:59 PST 2014


Hello Wolfgang,

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Otavio,
>
> In message <CAP9ODKr50h9hFFPRkeLO8iKkextuyNoxaBMS-nHc=5ZvKbnBJw at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
>> > Your conclusions are wrong.  Nothing has changed in our repository.
>> > The build error results from your own commit [1] where you added
>> > incorrect (and obviously untested) code.
> ...
>> I think I tested this when added the branch information. It seems it
>
> I don't think so.  The commit does not move around though different
> branches.
>
>> has a tag pointing to the hash and I will check how to use it (BitBake
>> has some issues to deal with the tags) but it would be nice if you or
>> someone else at DENX might help on this as I don't own a m53evk board.
>
> I don't see why you would actually use any branch or tag information.
> As you just learned, this is not reliable.  Just refer to the commit
> ID, and you are all fine.

This is required in current BitBake fetcher code and thus in master.
This is new in 1.6 release.

> As for help: I cannot see which help you would need to run a test
> build.  You can check yourself if it builds or fails.  Remember, the
> code was orking before you broke it.

Sorry Wolfgang but you are wrong. As I state before this is need in master.

Help? I do think someone supporting and doing regular tests would be
good. If you were subscribed to the mailing list you'd know I sent
another fix to make m53evk to build in Dora when using X11 which were
failing and no one found it.

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