Makefile responsibility?
Thomas Wood
thomas at openedhand.com
Thu May 1 09:12:28 CEST 2008
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 08:11 +0930, Rod Whitby wrote:
> Thomas Wood wrote:
> > This looks like the sane srcrev is missing for opkg. I believe this will
> > have been caused because Tick asked for the revision to be
> > "unfixed" (i.e. it should now track head).
> >
> > You'll need to ask an OpenEmbedded developer to look into this and fix
> > as appropriate. In this case I think Julian made the change so I have
> > CC'd him to this e-mail.
>
> I'm sorry, but we went through a whole lot of pain and effort to make
> sure that *everything* in the Openmoko image build was locked to a known
> SVN revision (which people can *opt-in* to change by using
> moko-autorev.inc), so "unfixing" something is simply not acceptable.
>
> opkg must be left at a known good sane srcrev in sane-srcrevs.inc (and
> it is the responsibility of the opkg developer to update that when a new
> known-good tested version is available and intended for the general
> public). "Unfixing" should be done by adding it to moko-autorev.inc,
> *not* by removing it from sane-srcrevs.inc.
Well, I think that's what I said already. If it wasn't, then it's what I
meant. I'm not an OE expert. :-)
Basically, opkg was made *not* to work with autorev for a while since I
was doing some heavy development on it. All that should have happened is
that it should have gone back to the way it was before then.
Regards,
Thomas
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