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
