On Wednesday 24 April 2013 10:46:15 Martin Jansa wrote: > I guess this will be hard to fix correctly, but please comment if I've > overlooked something: > > 1) update foo git repository with new commit ABCD, but forget to push it > 2) bump SRCREV in foo.bb to ABCD > 3) run bitbake foo, it will run do_fetch to catch new changes in remote > repo, but ABCD is not there, so do_unpack will fail like this: > > NOTE: Running task 2289 of 4227 (ID: 1185, foo.bb, do_unpack) > NOTE: recipe foo-1.0+gitr2+ABCD: task do_unpack: Started > ERROR: Function failed: Fetcher failure: Fetch command failed with exit > code 128, output: fatal: reference is not a tree: ABCD > > 4) realize missing "git push" in step 1) and push it now > 5) run bitbake foo again, but do_unpack is still failing, because > do_fetch checksums is the same (nothing changed in metadata) so stamp > is still valid. > > 6) fix it with "bitbake -c fetch -f foo", but that could be complicated > if bump SRCREV was pushed already and possibly many builders already > executed do_fetch, so maybe push PR bump or something like that. > > Only better solution than 6) I can think of, is to detect > "fatal: reference is not a tree" in do_unpack and if it's git repository > then remove do_fetch stamp and hope it was fixed in remote git repo.
I don't think this can work. The only way to fix this would be to check if the specified SRCREV (and/or branch/tag if specified) is valid during do_fetch and fail there if it isn't. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
