[poky] Yocto 2.5 and problem with pseudo-native-1.9.0

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 14:12 -0700, Michael Halstead wrote:
> 
> On 05/16/2018 07:05 AM, Arno Steffens wrote:
> > 
> > Checking the log file it seem that a file is missing in Yocto
> > project:
> > 
> > https://git.yoctoproject.org/pseudo/
> > 
> > And the file that is downloaded ...
> > http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/git2_git.yoctoproj
> > ect.org.pseudo.tar.gz
> > .. it has not .git folder and it has been compressed (date in file
> > is July 2016)
> These sources are preserved once uploaded to prevent the copy used in
> the initial (working) from being overwritten by corrupt/altered
> copies
> in the future. Back when this was set up the sources pretty much all
> had
> version numbers in the file name so it worked well.
> 
> I don't know what should happen with this file.

That is a problem as these files do change as new revisions get added
to the repositories. We do need to updated the git2_* files with newer
files which should in theory just contain more data. We'd need to make
the updates atomic (mv the files into place).

Cheers,

Richard