Re: [ptxdist] git ptxdist best practices

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 10:23:58AM -0500, Jon Ringle wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Olbrich, Michael
> <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>wrote:
> 
> > It really depends on how you want to work with this. If the external
> > repositories are integrated often, then add them as git submodules in
> > local_src and use "file://$(PTXDIST_WORKSPACE)/local_src/foo/" as URL. If
> >
> 
> I've not used git submodules before. Can I bind a git submodule to a
> specific tag?

git submodules are always bound to a specific commit.

> > not then create a tag when integrating and use
> > git://myhost.de/foo.git;tag=mytag1" as URL and foo-mytag1.tar.bz2 as
> > SOURCE
> > and update the tag as needed.  This will clone the repository and create a
> > tarball for the tag. Note: you cannot follow a branch here! It will just
> > use the tarball and ignore any changes to the branch. This is only for
> > projects that only provide git tags for releases but no tarballs.
> >
> >
> One issue that I ran across with this is that I have:
> PTXCONF_SETUP_PTXMIRROR_ONLY=y
> PTXCONF_SETUP_PTXMIRROR="http://opensource/pool/"
> 
> Where opensource is an internal server that keeps all tar balls used to
> build. I'm paranoid that someday a upstream tar ball won't be available and
> would cause a build break if someone tried to build and they didn't have
> that tar ball in ${PTXCONF_SETUP_SRCDIR}
> 
> But for my purposes, if I wanted to use the git URL in a rule file I'd want
> it to use the URL as is. But it rewrites it trying to use
> ${PTXCONF_SETUP_PTXMIRROR} instead in scripts/lib/ptxd_make_get.sh:295
> 
> Is there away to work around this?

put your git repositories in the mirror:
FOO_URL := http://opensource/pool/foo.git;tag=bar

The mechanism whitelists any URL starting with ${PTXCONF_SETUP_PTXMIRROR}

Michael

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