[poky] SVN woes persist

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 11:55 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 10/22/2010 08:29 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 08:04 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >> Will do.
> >>
> >> Should this address the similar issue with GIT packages.  These seem
> >> to be updating every time as well:
> >>     git_github.com.wrpseudo.pseudo.git.tar.gz
> >>     git_git.pokylinux.org.wr-kernel-tools.git.tar.gz
> >>     git_git.pokylinux.org.prelink-cross.git.tar.gz
> >
> > There are changes in master which will stop everything except the
> > linux-wrs recipe doing that. The linux-wrs recipe uses "fullclone" mode
> > of the git fetcher and this has known issues which we will address soon.
> >
> > If anything other than linux-wrs is refreshing on master other than that
> > recipe, let us know.
> 
> Looks good.  The one one that got updated today with a full build was pseudo
> and that's because the pinned revision was changed since I last merged.

Right, once its generated its tarball, it shouldn't touch the repo
again.

> >> I'm still hoping for a way to have a static (no network needed) setup
> >> soon.  I have to provide such in a training for some of my customers
> >> in about a month :-)
> >
> > It is meant to work like that!
> 
> This part is working much better now, thanks.
> 
> Any progress on a way to hot-start things with the staged packages?
> When last I tried it, it brought my system to its knees with no benefit
> (see original message from 2010-10-07)

I thought my last email made this clear, we've fixed issues, it works
better now.

Unfortunately there is an issue with the bits of the toolchain
overwriting each other so a build using the packages isn't entirely
working but you can for example generate images using them. All the
pieces are there and we just need to iron out a few bugs.

Cheers,

Richard