Hi Martin & Bruce, Thanks for your responses & filling in some of the background here.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 6:32 PM Bruce Ashfield <[email protected]> wrote: > Also note that in 2017 Trevor Woerner tried exactly the same fix that > you are doing, but ended up retracting it when he found a test case > that was still adding a + to the version. > > see: [OE-core] [PATCH] meta/classes/kernel.bbclass: revert 56fe5300ab5 > > It might be worth checking with Trevor to see if he recalls what case > it was where the + snuck back in. Absolutely - Trevor if you recall any details they'd be very much appreciated. I have my fingers crossed it might have been a case like the one Martin describes below :) On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 7:03 PM Martin Jansa <[email protected]> wrote: > Another piece of this puzzle might also be that in 2012 I was still using > minimalistic gentoo chroot, which was shared across all builders as git > repository, so even when you were building some kernel from tarball it might > have incorrectly assume that the kernel repo is dirty (even when it was the > git repo in top level rootfs directory which was dirty). Interesting - I think we should be able to deal with that case by setting the GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES environment variable, I'll give that a go. Thanks, Paul
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