1511 2011-09-22 05:13:03 +0000 Support versioned scm snapshots for mirroring 2015-08-18 23:20:30 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime BitBake bitbake unspecified x86 Multiple RESOLVED FIXED Medium enhancement 1.6 1 koen richard.purdie cbrake jessica.zhang kergoth lpapp Martin.Jansa poky.bs.watcher poky.watcher sgw song.liu --- --- Don't know oldest_to_newest 16395 0 koen 2011-09-22 05:13:03 +0000 OE classic could generate both versioned and unversioned scm snapshots, OE core (or rather bitbake/fetch2) can only do unversioned and versioned per SRC_URI. Versioned tarballs serves 2 purposes: 1) an easy way to check GPL compliance, an 'ls | grep' is enough 2) deterministic mirroring A quick hack to have a global switch for it can be found at: http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/11971/ From a mirror consumption perspective a workflow could be: 1) see if rev exists 2) try pulling 3) try versioned tarball 4) extract tarball into tmpdir, fetch objects into DL_DIR/git2 repo That would stop things from being blown away. It does allow the versioned snapshots to differ, but they will always have the rev they were versioned with. The order for mirror searches could be: 1. Specific Revision X tarball 2. generic mirror tarball 3. git clone For more info see the thread at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded.core/7888 36053 1 lpapp 2013-08-29 16:58:20 +0000 Any progress on this? 41824 2 richard.purdie 2014-03-27 10:56:20 +0000 The git fetcher now supports a "rebaseable" flag for git repos in SRC_URI. If that is set, a tarball is generated per git revision. I believe this issue is therefore now resolved and has been for a while, not sure why the bug status never got fixed.