[yocto] Long-term package revision maintenance

[Gary Thomas]

On 2016-03-10 10:35, Joshua G Lock wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 09:12 +0100, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I've been running local PR servers for my builds.  This works
>> quite well, as long as I don't touch my build trees.
>>
>> What's the best way to manage versions long-term?  i.e. if I
>> have a deployed system that I build today, but may not touch
>> for a long time (years?) and I might not want to keep my build
>> trees for that long.  If I just blow away the build tree, the
>> next time I build for that target, all of the version info will
>> be lost.  I'd like to be able to pick up where I left off.
>
> We have a bitbake-prserv-tool script:
>
> $ bitbake-prserv-tool
> Usage: bitbake-prserv-tool command
> Avaliable commands:
> 	export <file.conf>: export and lock down the AUTOPR values from
> the PR service into a file for release.
> 	import <file.conf>: import the AUTOPR values from the exported
> file into the PR service.
>
> I haven't used it but it certainly reads like what you want?
>

Did you miss all the questions I had about it (that you cut from the reply)?

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