Re: [OE-core] Why to make branch info is mandatory for non-master commit with latest bitbake

2014-03-17 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 11:53 +0100, Detlev Zundel wrote: > Hi Richard, > > thanks for your answer. > > > Imagine you set your recipe to some invalid SRCREV. It was possible that > > the fetcher would notice it was missing and attempt to fetch it from > > upstream (so far so good), then silently co

Re: [OE-core] Why to make branch info is mandatory for non-master commit with latest bitbake

2014-03-16 Thread Richard Purdie
On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 12:50 +0100, Detlev Zundel wrote: > Hi Richard, > > sorry to jump in so late, but I just realized that this "small" change > has some impact also on our ELDK recipies, so I would really like to > understand where the change comes from and why we couple a persistent > specific

Re: [OE-core] Why to make branch info is mandatory for non-master commit with latest bitbake

2014-03-14 Thread Detlev Zundel
Hi Richard, sorry to jump in so late, but I just realized that this "small" change has some impact also on our ELDK recipies, so I would really like to understand where the change comes from and why we couple a persistent specification (commit ID) with a transient specification (branch name). With

Re: [OE-core] Why to make branch info is mandatory for non-master commit with latest bitbake

2013-12-23 Thread zhenhua....@freescale.com
Hi Richard, > -Original Message- > From: openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org > [mailto:openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of > Richard Purdie > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 6:43 PM > > On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 06:41 +, zhenhua@freescale.com

Re: [OE-core] Why to make branch info is mandatory for non-master commit with latest bitbake

2013-12-23 Thread Richard Purdie
On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 06:41 +, zhenhua@freescale.com wrote: > Previously the branch name doesn't need to be defined when a > non-master branch commit is referred in recipe, this has been changed > in latest bitbake. > > Is this an intentional change? May I know the reason of the change if

[OE-core] Why to make branch info is mandatory for non-master commit with latest bitbake

2013-12-22 Thread zhenhua....@freescale.com
Previously the branch name doesn't need to be defined when a non-master branch commit is referred in recipe, this has been changed in latest bitbake. Is this an intentional change? May I know the reason of the change if it is intentional? Best Regards, Zhenhua ___