Adding a sensible subject. On 02/27/2016 08:17 PM, Philip Tricca wrote: > While going through the backlog I ran across the 'git' versions of the > user space. I noticed that a recent contribution was adding a patch to > the git recipe and I figured that this patch would already be upstream > and so wouldn't be necessary. Not so. The 'git' versions have SRCREV > hard wired (SRCREV) to a commit id but it's way back from the end of > 2013. They're also disabled via DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" > > These 'git' versions seem super useful for testing bleeding edge stuff > so IMHO keeping them around would be the right thing to do. Not sure how > I feel about them tracking an ancient commit though. Since they're never > built by default it seems reasonable to track the master branch. > > What's our philosophy w/r to recipes that pull from git? Is there some > history behind this SRCREV? > > Thanks, > Philip >
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