On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 01:59:29PM +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 at 13:49, Mathieu Dubois-Briand via
> lists.openembedded.org
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > -PV = "5.1"
> > +PV = "5.1+git"
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the reproducible 'magic' this would trigger
> in systemtap's usage of 'git describe', but if this does fix things,
> you need to leave a comment in the recipe asking people not to remove
> "+git". This is because "+git" suffix is typically used for something
> else: an indication that we're taking a revision that's several
> commits after the tagged version (e.g. containing important fixes).
> 
> Alex

Yes, indeed having a comment here would be better, I will make a v2
adding it.

As for the reasoning leading to add +git in the revision, the bug entry
gives some context:
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15288#c10

-- 
Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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