[yocto] Recipe svn-fetcher and scmdata

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2019-08-19 at 10:18 +0300, Teemu K wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some recipes that fetch sources directly from svn. I'd like to
> keep the .svn to make it easier to commit changes. I checked that
> those are by default removed and that there is scmdata - option if
> those wanted to be kept.
> 
> I set the following src_uri:
> 
> SRC_URI =
> "svn://my.svn.server/svn/sw_components/program/;module=trunk;protocol
> =http;scmdata=keep"
> 
> Yet the .svn - data is removed from the sources under build -
> directory. It is in under download directory though so I'm wondering
> if I got this right in the first place?
> 
> I tried with devtool modify and it seems I ended up having .git -
> directory there although sources are in svn. Maybe it's systems
> 'subtle' way of telling me to switch to git? ;)
> 
> But should the scmdata=keep option work like I'm thinking it should
> and/or what I'm doing wrong?

I have a suspicion the build directory (${B}) may be getting cleaned by
one of the tasks and wiping out the scm data but its just a guess...

Cheers,

Richard