[Toaster] releases and branches

[Barros Pena, Belen]

On 24/03/2015 11:42, "Michael Wood" <michael.g.wood at intel.com> wrote:

>On 24/03/15 11:35, Barros Pena, Belen wrote:
>>
>> On 24/03/2015 11:29, "Michael Wood" <michael.g.wood at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Looks good to me.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Related comment (but not impacting on this review) - I've always found
>>> it weird that releases == git branches in toaster, that seems like an
>>> implementation detail to me, as in other projects a release could be a
>>> git tag or a tarball or a commit or any of the 100s of ways of
>>> distributing code.
>> I didn't think this was the case. I was under the impression that a
>> release was a combination of a BitBake version and a OE metadata
>>version.
>> What that version is set to (a branch, a git tag or a commit) should be
>> irrelevant (we should be supporting all 3, but not tarballs I think).
>>
>> What makes you think that a release must be a git branch?
>
>The configuration for the release field names are "branch" and "up_branch"

Mmmm, that's indeed misleading. I wonder what would be the impact of
changing to something like 'revision' or 'version'.

Alex, any thoughts?

>
>(http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta-yocto/conf/toast
>erconf.json?#n62)
>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Belén
>>
>>
>>> On 22/03/15 20:17, belen barros pena wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=bbarrosp/
>>>>ui
>>>> -fixes
>>>>
>>>> a8a5552ad7d3ba869f165ef4a392990263224428
>>>> bitbake: toasterui: hide right column if empty
>>>>
>>>> cf44f4dfe7a6dec273d77143dbe19eeab1ae23d5
>>>> bitbake: toasterui: Improve messaging for empty layer details
>>>>
>>>> 09246f125cea1f8ff81081492824e14a3d38b02c
>>>> bitbake: toasterui: hide release when only one exists
>>>>
>>>> a2ffbc6f186f7d7fb022c8bfcd5b01a1a3442bb6
>>>> bitbake: toaster: update OpenEmbedded Toaster configuration
>>>>
>>>> 015fac8c6ef58218c8ad75d375907f13ac021548
>>>> bitbake: toaster: update Yocto Project Toaster configuration
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Belén
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