[yocto] Problems fetching branch for linux-yocto-custom

[Bryan Evenson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Ashfield [mailto:bruce.ashfield at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 3:15 PM
> To: Bryan Evenson
> Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto] Problems fetching branch for linux-yocto-custom
> 
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Bryan Evenson
> <bevenson at melinkcorp.com> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I have a custom linux recipe that I would like to fetch the head of a
> specific branch on a Git repository.  During the build it always
> fetches the master branch, not the branch I am specifying.  I've tried
> adding every relavant flag to the SRC_URI that I can think of and it
> still fetches and builds the master branch.  Any ideas on what I am
> doing wrong?
> >
> 
> What release are you using ?
> 
> Have you tried setting KBRANCH ?

I didn't know about the KBRANCH variable.  That sure helped.  I changed my recipe as shown below, and it is switching branches and checking out the specified commit.

Thanks!
Bryan

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bruce
> 
> > Here is my build environment details:
> >
> > Build Configuration:
> > BB_VERSION        = "1.16.0"
> > TARGET_ARCH       = "arm"
> > TARGET_OS         = "linux-gnueabi"
> > MACHINE           = "at91sam9x5ek"
> > DISTRO            = "poky"
> > DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.3.2"
> > TUNE_FEATURES     = "armv5 dsp thumb arm926ejs"
> > TARGET_FPU        = "soft"
> > meta-atmel        = "master:a3b649c46c6f48cea4c95d35028e950d8d5b3a13"
> > meta
> > meta-yocto
> > meta-yocto-bsp    = "danny:c3505828f267ca68aaf454355466f54772545a22"
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> >
> > Here is my kernel recipe (Removed the boilerplate comments at top of
> linux-yocto-custom recipe to reduce clutter):
> >
> > inherit kernel
> > require recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
> >
# Added KBRANCH spec
KBRANCH = "linux-3.9-at91"
> > # Override SRC_URI in a bbappend file to point at a different source
> #
> > tree if you do not want to build from Linus' tree.
> > SRC_URI = "git://github.com/linux4sam/linux-at91.git;branch=linux-
> 3.9-
> at91;tag=dcdf169e24c0cb6d7dc69e0a09d2395934e95075;protocol=git;nochecko
> ut=1"

# Changed SRC_URI to following
SRC_URI = "git://github.com/linux4sam/linux-at91.git;branch=${KBRANCH};protocol=git;nocheckout=1"

> > SRC_URI += "file://${MACHINE}/defconfig"
> >
> > LINUX_VERSION ?= "3.9.0"
> > LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION ?= "-custom"
> >
> > # Override SRCREV to point to a different commit in a bbappend file
> to
> > # build a different release of the Linux kernel.
> > # tag: v3.4 76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc
> > # tag: linux-3.9-at91 as of 2013-06-12,
> > dcdf169e24c0cb6d7dc69e0a09d2395934e95075
> > SRCREV="dcdf169e24c0cb6d7dc69e0a09d2395934e95075"
> > PV = "${LINUX_VERSION}+${SRCREV}"
> >
> > PR = "r1"
> >
> > # Override COMPATIBLE_MACHINE to include your machine in a bbappend #
> > file. Leaving it empty here ensures an early explicit build failure.
> > COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "(sama5d3xek|at91sam9x5ek)"
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > And here is my bbappend:
> > FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
> > COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_sama5d3xek = "at91sama5d3xek"
> > COMPATIBLE_MACHINE_at91sam9x5ek = "at91sam9x5ek"
> >
> > Any insight would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan
> >
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