[yocto] Using stable releases from git

[Joshua Lock]

On 30/01/12 15:32, jfabernathy wrote:
> On 01/30/2012 06:15 PM, Joshua Lock wrote:
>> On 30/01/12 15:05, jfabernathy wrote:
>>> On 01/30/2012 05:58 PM, Joshua Lock wrote:
>>>> It's beginning to sound like we've caught some folks off guard by
>>>> pushing changes to the edison branch of the poky repository in
>>>> preparation for an upcoming edison point release.
>>>>
>>>> The named branches are development branches for the release, stable
>>>> release development will be done in the named branch and we can't
>>>> guarantee they will be issue free (though we intend them to be where
>>>> possible).
>>>>
>>>> If you're looking to use a git checkout which matches the release
>>>> tarballs you should checkout the tags for the releases. i.e. for Poky
>>>> Edison-6.0/Yocto 1.1:
>>>>
>>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tag/?id=edison-6.0
>>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-intel/tag/?id=edison-6.0
>>>>
>>> So instead of doing:
>>>
>>> git checkout -b edison origin/edison
>>>
>>> what should I do if I want to stay in sync with the tarball. This may
>>> just be a doc problem.
>>
>> I'd do:
>>
>> git fetch --tags
>> git checkout edison-6.0
>>
>> Then when a new tarball comes out, you'd repeat with the new tag name.
>>
>
> We I just tried that and it crashed a lot quicker. I'll just stick to
> the tarballs until this is all sorted out.

Are you using an appropriate tag (or branch) of meta-intel? The master 
branch of meta-intel with the bernard tag of poky will fail to parse 
because some of the recipes being appended to in meta-intel have changed 
names.

Cheers,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
         Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
         Intel Open Source Technology Centre