Bug 2872

Summary:	fetch/git: Implement gitpkgv functionality in fetcher
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake	Reporter:	Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Component:	bitbake	Assignee:	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Low	CC:	dvhart, kergoth, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, randy.macleod
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	Future
Hardware:	All
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Paul Eggleton 2012-07-31 17:17:25 UTC

meta-oe currently has gitpkgv.bbclass that was brought in from OE-Classic, which allows the package version to be derived from the git repository itself:

http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/classes/gitpkgv.bbclass

It has been requested that this class be merged into OE-Core; however a more desirable solution is for functionality not already covered by SRCPV to be provided out of the box with the git fetcher.

A suggested outline of an implementation has been posted by Richard:
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-February/017070.html

Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2014-06-25 14:08:40 UTC

The old linuxtogo link above is broken; I believe this is the post I was referring to: 

http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-February/056023.html

Comment 2 Paul Eggleton 2017-07-20 15:28:59 UTC

So some patches got merged a couple of years ago that looked like they might address this:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=f03e108fb15aae76d4b6258658e6d540540214f2
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=5170177719a93a69cc6c7c1218b3f26eed82d6e0

Not having ever used the gitpkgv class I can't say whether this resolves the issue, but it has received some attention since this bug was last touched.