On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Bob Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/30/2014 09:53 AM, Lauren Post wrote: >> >> >>> For the repo manifest file (default.xml), can you use tag names (e.g., >>> yocto-1.6) when possible instead of the SHA for your revision attribute >>> inside of the project tag? It >>> would save some time of having to do a reverse lookup for each revision >>> attribute (commit) and make the > manifest more friendly. >>> And how would I figure out why you chose a particular commit that wasn't >>> otherwise notable / tagged >>> (e.g., you're not using the 1.6 tag in meta-fsl-arm)? >>> I looked through the commits in fsl-arm-yocto-bsp.git, but I didn't find >>> anything to help me with this. >> >> >> When we do code freeze for a release we lock our manifest to specific >> commit on all layers - many times it is a mid point on the branches past the >> release. So unfortunately we can't use a tag or branch name in the >> manifest. After we release we go back to the tip and use that for >> development so our beta release will have more fixes from community from >> daisy branch. We always release based on latest official Yocto Project >> release so 3.10.31 is based off of daisy but will be upstreamed to be part >> of Yocto Project 1.7. > > > Thanks for the reply Lauren. I see that you point to the poky revision that > is indeed at the yocto-1.6 tag, but the meta-fsl-arm revision is not at the > 1.6 tag. Other than combing through the mail lists, is there anything > documented that would help me understand why you picked this particular > commit for your release? (the answer is probably obvious to those that > aren't playing catch up like me).
This is just the point their did the code freeze; there is no 'reason' to choose one commit on top of another, just a matter of timing. meta-fsl-arm was tagged after as we were with some ongoing work being finished. So it was not in 'sync' with YP 1.6 tag. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
