[yocto] SRCREV for BBLAYERS

[Christian Ege]

Hi,

> 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?
I am not sure If I got your point. If you intend to handle different
versions of layers you are using you may can use the setup-scripts
from Angstrom
They do use an "layer manager"
https://github.com/Angstrom-distribution/setup-scripts
https://github.com/Angstrom-distribution/setup-scripts/blob/master/sources/layers.txt

Which fetches the configured layers with the defined branch and commit ID.


regards,
Christian

>
> 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
>>
>> --
>>
>> Paul Eggleton
>> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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