Makefile responsibility?

Thomas Wood thomas at openedhand.com
Thu May 1 09:33:25 CEST 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 08:12 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> 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. :-)

And I should probably point out that I didn't make the change either.

Regards,

Thomas

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