i'm about to reorg the bitbake manual fetcher chapter, so i have
some questions. currently, the list of fetcher types in the manual is
clearly incomplete. if i peruse the python files in lib/bb/fetch, the
currently supported types appear to be:
* local
* bzr
* cvs
* git
* hg
* osc
* perforce
* ssh
* svk
* svn
* wget (actually ftp/http/https)
so, the questions:
1) are all of the above actually functional? all that are should be
added to the manual and i can do that. and even if i don't officially
document each type, i can at least add a section that reads
"documentation coming soon" or something like that so readers at least
know that such a Fetcher exists.
2) the page on the local file fetcher claims that its behaviour
depends on OVERRIDES. however, if i grep local.py, there is no
mention of any conditional checks on that variable. if i check which
of the fetcher types refers to that variable, i get:
$ grep -lw OVERRIDES *.py
cvs.py
perforce.py
wget.py
$
perhaps i just don't understand python enough yet, but if a fetcher
implementation doesn't refer to or test that variable in any way, how
can it depend on its behaviour?
rday
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