i *thought* i understood this, but a colleague insists i don't so ... dumb question time.
recently, i asked about the netdata recipe file "netdata_git.bb", which contains the snippet: SRC_URI = "git://github.com/firehol/netdata.git;protocol=https" SRCREV = "36c1304e37094174ea51001903058e65053107ca" PV = "1.0.1+git${SRCPV}" perhaps i've been wrong all this time, but i understood the above to mean that the source checked out would be based on commit 36c1304e37094174ea51001903058e65053107ca, and that the "1.0.1+" part of the PV variable was simply for aesthetics. i realize that the full value of PV would be used to generate the final rpm files, and here's what i get: netdata-1.0.1+git0+36c1304e37-r0.0.ppc7400.rpm netdata-dbg-1.0.1+git0+36c1304e37-r0.0.ppc7400.rpm netdata-dev-1.0.1+git0+36c1304e37-r0.0.ppc7400.rpm but is there some other significance or functionality associated with that "1.0.1+" prefix for PV? the only thing i can think of is OE's algorithm for selecting the most recent recipe. AIUI, if i have multiple versions for the same recipe. all things being equal, OE would choose the "git" recipe file over a numerically-versioned recipe file, correct? so, say i have two recipe files: netdata_1.0.2.bb netdata_git.bb i assume that OE would choose the second one by default, even if, internally, that "git" form of the recipe selected a SRCREV that might represent an earlier commit than the 1.0.2 version. do i have that right? i'm quite prepared to be told i'm totally off-base here. if this is explained in one of the YP docs, i'm happy with a pointer to it, thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core