All existing fetchers should be considered supported today, so of any are broken, those are bugs. The local fetcher today is essentially a no-op, as the real work about grabbing the correct version of the file is in do_unpack. I'd suggest just removing the bit about local using overrides entirely.
-- Chris Larson On Jan 16, 2010, at 3:05 AM, "Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > -- > > === > ===================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, > CANADA > > Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. > > Web page: http://crashcourse.ca > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > === > ===================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > Bitbake-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-dev _______________________________________________ Bitbake-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-dev
