[OE-core] couple more questions about git-based recipe files

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>   first, is there any value (or even any example) where one would want
> to have multiple git-based recipe files for the same recipe? i'm
> unaware of such a thing, and not even sure what naming convention you
> would use to support multiple git recipes for the same recipe so that
> the filenames wouldn't clash.
>
>   and, second, i just ran across this recipe file in OE:
>
>   build-compare_git.bb:
>
>         SRCREV = "c5352c054c6ef15735da31b76d6d88620f4aff0a"
>         PV = "git+${SRCPV}"
>
> that setting for PV doesn't look right. or does it?
>

you could essentially give part of PV in their name

foo_git1.bb, foo_git2.bb ..

just ensure each of these provide same packages for the final rootfs
then you can use PREFERRED_VERSION_foo = "gitX%" in config metadata to
choose one you want.

> rday
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