[yocto] [PATCH][meta-raspberrypi] linux-raspberrypi_dev: don't use AUTOREV

[Andre McCurdy]

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Paul Barker <pbarker at toganlabs.com> wrote:
> On 30 May 2017 5:08 p.m., "Khem Raj" <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> * use latest revision in rpi-4.11.y branch
>> * using AUTOREV causes bitbake to run git ls-remote on the github.com
>> repository in order
>>   to convert AUTOREV to currently latest SRCREV even when you don't use
>> linux-raspberrypi_dev
>>   at all, just happen to have meta-raspberrypi layer in your
>> bblayers.conf, that's bad for
>>   people who want to be able to build without network access (completely
>> from premirror)
>>
>
> These branches get rebased often so locking SRCREV caused another
> kind of problem. what we can do is.
>
> 1. Let user like you override the SRCREC via a bbappend or conf file.
> so change the assignment to ?=
> 2. Delete the recipe completely. We lose some of upstream testing.
>
> We should be able to skip the recipe if it isn't selected as the preferred
> version and/or provider of "virtual/kernel". I'm out at the minute so can't
> look at it now but will try to take a look later this week.

The linux-yocto-dev.bb recipe contains an example of doing that.

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