[yocto] devtool and adding specific tag from repo

[Brian Kurle]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 04:20:14PM +1200, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > ...
> > My goal is to set up a stock recipe off of the mbedtls-2.4.2 tag,
> > where I'll then create a bbappend to add additional patches and
> > configuration specific for our platform.  I could do it manually, but it
> > would be nice to know how to do it "the right way" for the documentation
> > I'll pass to others on my team.
> > 
> > Guidance and correction would be most appreciated.
> 
> For everyone's benefit, FYI Brian and I have talked offline, but there
> are several bugs and opportunities for improvement here as it turns out.
> I have filed the following bugs:
> 
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11389
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11390
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11391
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11393
> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11392
> 
> The current workaround for this particular example is to use this:
> 
> devtool add --version 2.4.2 mbedtls "git://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls;branch=mbedtls-2.4;rev=mbedtls-2.4.2"
> ...

Paul,

Again, thanks for the assistance on this.

brian

> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
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> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
>