yesterday's qtopia rootfs
Rod Whitby
rod at whitby.id.au
Fri May 23 07:05:49 CEST 2008
Mike Montour wrote:
> The biggest pain I've had is with packages versioned like
> "embryo-0.9.1.042+cvs20080522" when the build crosses midnight UTC. It
> runs some of the steps like do_fetch and do_compile on the 22nd, but the
> date has advanced by the time it tries to do do_install and it looks for
> a non-existent "...cvs20080523" directory. Deleting all of the
> tmp/stamps/... files for the affected package and then rebuilding works
> around this, but it would be nice to have a proper fix.
This is the reason why every recipe in OE which depends on a revision
control system state *must* have an entry in sane-srcdates or
sane-srcrevs which ties it to a known good version, and any image
building activity must include both of those.
Without that discipline, chaos rules.
-- Rod
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