5363 2013-10-17 18:14:58 +0000 base_get_metadata_svn_revision fails with IndexError 2013-11-25 14:58:33 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core core unspecified x86 Multiple RESOLVED FIXED Medium normal 1.5.1 1 pevasquez richard.purdie meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher pevasquez --- --- Don't know oldest_to_newest 38024 0 pevasquez 2013-10-17 18:14:58 +0000 38025 1 pevasquez 2013-10-17 18:21:52 +0000 When using svn client version 1.8 to check out a working copy of poky, bitbake meta-toolchain-qte will fail with: ERROR: Failure expanding variable METADATA_REVISION, expression was ${@base_detect_revision(d)} which triggered exception IndexError: list index out of range Seems like base_get_metadata_svn_revision is expecting .svn/entries to be at least 3 lines long, which is not the case for svn v1.8 (and probably 1.6 and 1.7). As a workaround, the working copy can be exported, or checked out with an older svn client version. 39032 2 richard.purdie 2013-11-22 15:08:18 +0000 I don't know how we get the version correctly in modern subversion, nor am I particularly keen to figure it out. I've sent out a patch to stop the crashes though. 39069 3 richard.purdie 2013-11-25 14:58:33 +0000 The crash is resolved with http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=b62bdbd135d3c2cf02b62d68e46b76a5ccda3331 If you want the versioning to work with newer suversions, please send a patch for it. We're happy to improve it, equally I don't anyone using subversion for this so it makes it hard to find anyone to fix it.