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Richard Purdie 18a533bfe6 bitbake: fetch/git: Rework tag parameter handling
Currently bitbake disallows tag parameters along with revision parameters.
This isn't great since quite often, we'd like to verify that a given revision
does match some tag. At the same time we don't want to or need to access
the network to verify this, which normally a tag would require.

Rework the code so that tag and revisions can both be specified together.
Verify that any tag specified matches the revision in use at unpack time.

This means we can start requiring people to put tags in git SRC_URIs
when revisions are used, making review a little easier that it isn't
some random revision.

The test that is dropped looks like a different test but the comment
is a copy and paste error. The SRCREV/rev mismatch test remains, this
removes the rev and tag set test.

(Bitbake rev: d591d7633fe8d739ec00395920e44910b0b77e27)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-03-19 11:46:30 +00:00
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2010-08-04 16:12:39 +01:00
2023-10-24 12:49:56 +01:00

Bitbake

BitBake is a generic task execution engine that allows shell and Python tasks to be run efficiently and in parallel while working within complex inter-task dependency constraints. One of BitBake's main users, OpenEmbedded, takes this core and builds embedded Linux software stacks using a task-oriented approach.

For information about Bitbake, see the OpenEmbedded website: https://www.openembedded.org/

Bitbake plain documentation can be found under the doc directory or its integrated html version at the Yocto Project website: https://docs.yoctoproject.org

Bitbake requires Python version 3.8 or newer.

Contributing

Please refer to our contributor guide here: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/contributor-guide/ for full details on how to submit changes.

As a quick guide, patches should be sent to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org The git command to do that would be:

git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org

If you're sending a patch related to the BitBake manual, make sure you copy the Yocto Project documentation mailing list:

git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org --cc docs@lists.yoctoproject.org

Mailing list:

https://lists.openembedded.org/g/bitbake-devel

Source code:

https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/

Testing

Bitbake has a testsuite located in lib/bb/tests/ whichs aim to try and prevent regressions. You can run this with "bitbake-selftest". In particular the fetcher is well covered since it has so many corner cases. The datastore has many tests too. Testing with the testsuite is recommended before submitting patches, particularly to the fetcher and datastore. We also appreciate new test cases and may require them for more obscure issues.

To run the tests "zstd" and "git" must be installed.

The assumption is made that this testsuite is run from an initialized OpenEmbedded build environment (i.e. source oe-init-build-env is used). If this is not the case, run the testsuite as follows:

export PATH=$(pwd)/bin:$PATH
bin/bitbake-selftest

The testsuite can alternatively be executed using pytest, e.g. obtained from PyPI (in this case, the PATH is configured automatically):

pytest