[yocto] New issue with git fetcher?

Tian, Kevin kevin.tian at intel.com
Wed Oct 20 01:20:48 PDT 2010


>From: Richard Purdie
>Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 12:29 AM
>
>On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 13:55 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> I've pushed some more invasive changes to the fetcher in the Poky master
>> branch. I'd appreciate the teams help in finding out if these work or
>> not, with both existing builds and with totally fresh from scratch
>> builds.
>>
>> If they prove not to have major issues we're likely to merge these into
>> the release branch as what is there is going to bite people and look
>> rather bad.
>
>There were some issues that Tom and Joshua were seeing which I debugged
>and found that we weren't adding in new branches in the fetching code.
>
>I was able to reproduce and then have added a patch to the git fetcher
>which ensures these things are cloned correctly and any new branches are
>created. I talked with Bruce to confirm my diagnosis and the solution.
>
>This fix makes an awful lot of sense and explains various issues we've
>been chasing for a while with the fetcher bugs so I'm very pleased to
>have this fix checked in.
>
>Could people continue to test the code and report any problems...
>

I tried "bitbake poky-image-sdk -c fetchall" both with an existing source directory
and with a fresh new download. Everything works fine. 

Thanks
Kevin



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