On 2012-04-18 09:28, Paul Eggleton wrote:
On Wednesday 18 April 2012 03:34:27 Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
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.
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).
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.
externalsrc should handle everything except automatically fetching the source;
for that you need to have your own local git clone (which of course can be
r/w). I guess it depends on whether you expect to be sending such recipes to
non-developers; for developers it ought not to be too much of a hassle to have
their own local git clone.
The only problem with having an r/w checkout you are doing development in
under WORKDIR is that if you bitbake -c clean the recipe you will lose
whatever you are working on - externalsrc avoids this.
Cheers,
Paul
I am working with a company, which OEMs their solution to other companies.
They get tons of questions from those customers, and based on that
I would like to avoid anything which requires manual intervention
of the developer.
As for cleaning out changes, it might happen, but I am prepared to take
the risk.
Today I am initializing a git after the extract anyway.
I am sure I will use externalsrc for something.
--
Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson
u...@emagii.com
+46 722 427437
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