[yocto] Problem with AUTOINC and ipk

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 01:14:16PM +0200, Tino Breddin wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> We are having problems with using AUTOINC together with the ipk package format. I'm not sure whether this issue applies to rpm and deb as well.
> 
> Given the following configuration in a recipe:
> 
> SRCREV = "AUTOINC"
> PV = "git${SRCPV}"
> PR = "r0"
> 
> The generated package will have a version like this:
> 
> git0+e6d1870200802f32e17e334272191397e15aec53-r0
> 
> In case the latest Git revision changes, the new package would have the version:
> 
> git0+30249a36b39482a98772c881334ee703715a54cc-r0
> 
> My understanding is that the first integer before the + is meant to be incremented monotonically to allow the package manager to figure out that a upgrade is available. Where is the state for this integer kept? Obviously if 2 developers build the package independent from each other it would always be 0 initially. But it will stay 0 for a single developer too if the package is cleaned first. At least that is what we are seeing.
> 
> I'd appreciate any feedback on how to handle recipes which should follow the Git HEAD.

Before PR service it was using bitbake's persistent cache in
PERSISTENT_DIR, now PR service is used for that:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/PR_Service

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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