On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:34:27 +0200 Ulf Samuelsson <openembed...@emagii.com> wrote:
> On 2012-04-18 01:07, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 April 2012 00:35:29 Ulf Samuelsson wrote: > >> Today bitbake supports read only git access in recipes. > >> For various reasons, I would like to be able to do recipes > >> which would check out in a read/write mode. > > Could you elaborate on "various reasons"? > > > > Would the new externalsrc bbclass be useful in your case? > > > > Cheers, > > Paul > > > > 1. If I am busy working on an application, then it simplifies the > development process. > I can modify the code in the tree and push. > This is mainly for kernel development. > for that you can pass "protocol=file" to make the git fetcher use the "file" transport, see http://ao2.it/en/blog/2010/05/27/neat-compilerun-cycle-git-and-openembedded basically, in the .bb recipe, you can fetch from a local clone where you do your normal work. > 2. If I work on a prerelease of some S/W drivers/Applications under NDA, > then I cannot make that code publicly available > but I still want to put that on my Internet accessible git server. > Typicailly this is before the release of a new chip and info about > the chip should not be > made public before the chip is released. > > 3. I want to be able to ship something similar to the Angstrom setup > scripts > to someone else, and have them build an image, but it should not > be available > to anyone not accepted (without public key at the git server). > maybe you can pass "protocol=ssh" as well to the git fetcher as well, but I haven't tried that, when you say "R/W mode" you are basically saying "ssh transport" for git, right? Let us know if that works. > There are other uses for such a functionality, but those are my > immediate needs. > > As you see, this is mostly for development. > Once the code is released, then the recipe would be changed to the > normal git access. > > Didn't know anything about the externalsrc bbclass, but after checking, > I would say no. > It won't do the two things above. I do see the use of it though. > Ciao, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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