[poky] SRCREV_FORMAT breaks my builds

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Bruce Ashfield
<bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>> My system builds on the Poky meta layer (only), plus my
>> target layers.  As of an update today, I now get errors
>> parsing any package (in meta) which uses SRCREV_FORMAT.
>>
>> The error (bitback tracebacks) is attached.
>>
>> I see these recipes with SRCREV_FORMAT:
>>  ./meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-stable_git.bb:SRCREV_FORMAT =
>> "meta_machine"
>>  ./meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_git.bb:SRCREV_FORMAT =
>> "meta_machine"
>>  ./meta/recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers-yocto_git.bb:SRCREV_FORMAT
>> = "meta_machine"
>>
>> This error happens because I have my own machine(s) which
>> are not listed in poky-default-revisions.inc, such as:
>>  SRCREV_machine_pn-linux-yocto-stable_beagleboard ?=
>> "0431115c9d720fee5bb105f6a7411efb4f851d26"
>> adding such an entry for my machine into my distribution
>> files does work past the problem.
>
> Interesting. I've suffered my fair share of SRCREV pain, but this time I
> haven't touched anything in days, and a quick look didn't show me
> any suspect commits. But from the traces, it is does look to me to be
> another case of the fetcher going out and attempting to validate the
> branches in the SRC_URI of the yocto kernel.
>
> Did you try bisecting a bit to narrow down on the offending commit ?
> I'm not seeing it myself, but if I reproduce it here, I'll try locate what's
> up. There has been fetching work ongoing, but it doesn't appear to be
> the cause here.
>
> I may be able to drop a sane default in the recipes that will keep
> this working, but until I reproduce it, I can't run effective experiments.
> It should simply be pointing at the fallback branches and going merrily
> along in the build
>
> I'll continue to try and reproduce this here.

And sure enough, I immediately saw this after hitting send. I'm having
a look at this now.

Bruce

>
> Bruce
>
>>
>> Since I have my own machines and linux recipes, the linux-yocto
>> ones are not needed and indeed cause pain.  How can I ignore
>> them (since I want to use the poky meta layer untouched)?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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