From 954444f1d360e9d61b6ad16a64c0550afea7272b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggleton Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:51:12 +0100 Subject: documentation: update documentation for SRCREV variable * Add note about specifying a full revision ID to prevent querying the remote server on every parse * Mercurial also supports this variable (From yocto-docs rev: 47ce273dd751b0ae32b5c53310b6aedc4dade2ef) Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'documentation') diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index b87ee42fe9..f942cc7319 100644 --- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -969,7 +969,11 @@ The revision of the source code used to build the package. - This variable applies to Subversion, GitT, or Bazaar only. + This variable applies to Subversion, Git, Mercurial and Bazaar + only. Note that if you wish to build a fixed revision and you wish + to avoid performing a query on the remote repository every time + BitBake parses your recipe, you should specify a SRCREV that is a + full revision identifier (and not just a tag). -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf