[yocto] How to handle meta-intel/openembedded repos with multiple developers

[Mike Looijmans]

Git submodules work fine for this.

In general, for each project I create a top-level repo that has the OE repos 
as submodule. The project repo also contains the project-specific recipes.


On 07-11-16 20:31, Chris Z. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How you store your project configuration ? How you prepare workspace (download
> each layer separately)?
> Basic stuff, SW release should be reproducible (in easy way). Store somewhere
> used hash of each piece or use tags. Non company assets should be already
> somehow tagged or you use HEAD or master/-next ?
>
> Br,
> Chris Z
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Edward Wingate <edwingate8 at gmail.com
> <mailto:edwingate8 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com
>     <mailto:mark.hatle at windriver.com>> wrote:
>     >  At some point during product development a lead/architect needs to make the
>     > decision to 'freeze' development and at that point everything is
>     tagged/branched
>     > and only backports are used from them on.  (If the number of backports
>     gets too
>     > large, you MIGHT decide to selectively rebase.)
>
>     I'm currently trying to figure out with how to control external layers
>     in my Yocto build and found this thread.  I'm a little unclear on how
>     to track a release to the version used on non-company layers.  Say I'm
>     using poky, meta-openembedded, meta-xilinx and then my own layer,
>     meta-me. When I freeze development and do a release, I can tag
>     meta-me, but because I also treat non-company assets as RO, I
>     shouldn't tag poky, meta-openembedded nor meta-xilinx (or should I? Is
>     this where I use git's lightweight tagging as opposed to annotated
>     tags?) When "everything is tagged/branched", does that somehow include
>     tagging the non-company assets?  Thanks for any help.
>
>     Ed
>     --
>     

Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
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