On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 17:18 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: > > I think that we should switch any bbfile which has a floating SRCDATE > > to a fixed one. > > Most certainly not. For most packages we have releases (e.g. foo_2.0.bb) > as well as floating packages (e.g. foo_cvs.bb) to make it easier to > track upstream development. > Get your distro maintainer to look into it if you encounter cvs releated > breakage. > > There is only 1 case where it would make sense to lockdown the srcdate: > packages that only have 1 foo_cvs.bb.
I'm not sure I agree with that. If _cvs.bb's are to float, lets have them all float. > > If noone comes forward to set one I suggest either > > "today" or the last build of the package in a release of some kind > > (Familiar/OZ/etc). > > Just put a fixed SRCDATE in your local.conf. Much easier as going trough > a zillion .bb files. > If even that isn't an option, please switch to a release branch. I don't think we should be locking down floating dates by default. I do think there might be a role for a known_good_src_dates.inc file. Whether this was included by any given distro by default would be up to the distro but I'd suggest not doing so. Individual users would be free to include it in their local.conf and we can even add it as documentation in local.conf.sample and GettingStarted. I have quite a large list of known to work SRCDATEs from poky which I could add to OE. Would anyone object to having such a file as a compromise solution? Richard _______________________________________________ Oe mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/oe
