SRCREV and git packages
John Lee
john_lee at openmoko.com
Mon May 12 06:24:15 CEST 2008
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 08:20:56PM +0200, Holger Freyther wrote:
> Hey,
>
> we, as in Openmoko, have preferred SRCDATE for git based recipes over SRCREV
> for one simple reason. We need an increasing number for the package version
> and for git we made a number up and stored it within the tmp directory.
> Removing the tmp directory removed that numbers and we had new packages going
> back.
>
> To partially avoid this issue. Get the latest Bitbake from the bitbake-1.8
> branch and put something like this [1] into your local.conf. This will put
> the persistent data into your home directory and you can wipe the tmp dir
> without losing this. Another approach is coming soon as well.
Actually I use SRCDATE in openmoko-linux because I want a increasing
number even across different repositories. The persistent data is
specific to the build machine so I decided not to use that.
Regards,
John
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