[yocto] SRCREV for BBLAYERS

[Richard Leitner - SKIDATA]

Hi Paul,
thanks for your quick answer!
I'll work with separate checkouts for now...

But now I've got another question:
Is there any possibility to submit something like a feature request for this?
And is there a (realistic) chance that this feature gets implemented?
If so, where should this request go? To the bitbake-devel list?

best regards,
Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Eggleton [mailto:paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 3:46 PM
> To: Richard Leitner - SKIDATA
> Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto] SRCREV for BBLAYERS
> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On Monday 03 February 2014 12:17:04 Richard Leitner - SKIDATA wrote:
> > I've a question regarding the BBLAYERS variable.
> > Is it possible to set some kind of a SRCREV (=> git
> > tag/branch/commit-id) for a path listed in BBLAYERS?
> >
> > I came to this question because I've two different branches in my meta
> > layer: one for development and one for 'stable' releases. Therefore I
> > have also two different build dirs and want to 'pin' the branches/tags
> > to the build dir (preferable via the bblayers.conf). I think this
> > should be possible because at the start of a build the revs are displayed like:
> > meta-yocto = "[branch]:[commit-id]" The problem is that I wasn't able
> > to find any answers or solutions on the web so I ask you now for help.
> 
> The build system doesn't actually manage checking out/updating layers for you, it only
> reports the revision if there is one, so this functionality isn't supported. Probably the
> easiest way to handle this would be to keep two separate checkouts.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
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> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre