[bitbake-devel] UNVERIFIED SENDER Re: RFC: exposing information about the SRC_URI(s)/branch via buildhistory (or similar mechanism)

[chris.laplante at agilent.com]

> I've had some thoughts of capturing that same information, as well as
> automatically generating a changelog (from short-commit entries) from the last
> build to the current one use standard git commands... but I've never had time to
> implement anything.
> 
> When I talked with RP about this a while back, he mentioned it should be
> possible to extend the functionality of buildhistory with an additional class.
> So the user could opt into extended functionality by including more then one
> buildhistory class.
> 
> So my recommendation, store the URL you pulled from along with the SRCREV (if
> it's not already been stored).  This can then be used later to investigate -- or
> extended [internally or externally] to create changelogs.

Wouldn't it be a bit overkill to add a new class just to handle SRC_URI? I would think it would just be a little extra code inside write_latest_srcrev.

Chris