[yocto] Long-term package revision maintenance

[Gary Thomas]

On 2016-03-10 11:04, Joshua G Lock wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 10:43 +0100, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> 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)?
>
> Evidently yes, apologies — I clearly need more coffee.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have the knowledge to answer those questions, but
> a quick look at the git history[1], related ticket[2] and wiki[3] makes
> me think it was designed to work as you hope.
>
> If you have build trees available it should be fairly cheap to verify,
> I think.
>
> This seems like a scenario we should document in the "Working With a PR
> Service"[4] section of the Yocto Project Development Manual so please
> do let us know how you get on.

Thanks, I will give it a go soon.

>
> Regards,
>
> Joshua
>
> 1. http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=a05e3a57c6
> f567578faeb31fae89b20e22850af4
> 2. https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show
> _bug.cgi?id=1556
> 3. https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/PR_Service#Export
> _Functionality
> 4. http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.0/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#work
> ing-with-a-pr-service
>


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