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

[Andrei Gherzan]

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> ah perfect. Thats what we need here
>
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/
> recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-dev.bb?h=master#n28
>
> please rename the recipe to be linux-raspberrypi-dev.bb and add the magic
> above and send a v2
>
>
Using the magic above we still hardcode a revision there. So if a user
wants to compile the recipe without setting the preferred provider it will
fail.

--
Andrei Gherzan
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