1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py
index 3eb0e4d211..f70f1b5157 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py
@@ -1559,6 +1559,14 @@ class FetchMethod(object):
         key = self._revision_key(ud, d, name)
         return "%s-%s" % (key, d.getVar("PN") or "")
 
+    def latest_versionstring(self, ud, d):
+        """
+        Compute the latest release name like "x.y.x" in "x.y.x+gitHASH"
+        by searching through the tags output of ls-remote, comparing
+        versions and returning the highest match as a (version, revision) pair.
+        """
+        return ('', '')
+
 class Fetch(object):
     def __init__(self, urls, d, cache = True, localonly = False, connection_cache = None):
         if localonly and cache: