Using local git repo for recipe development

[Patrick Voelker]

Vijay, that didn't make any difference.  I get the same result.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vijay Khemka [mailto:vijaykhemka at fb.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2020 12:27 PM
> To: Patrick Voelker; OpenBMC (openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org)
> Subject: Re: Using local git repo for recipe development
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/29/20, 10:17 AM, "openbmc on behalf of Patrick Voelker" <openbmc-
> bounces+vijaykhemka=fb.com at lists.ozlabs.org on behalf of
> Patrick_Voelker at phoenix.com> wrote:
> 
>     I'm creating a new recipe for local development but when I do a 'devtool
> modify <recipe>' it always seems to make an empty directory (that contains
> only .git.)
> 
>     Here's the relevant lines from my .bb file:
>     SRC_URI = "git:///home/pvoelker/bmc/dev/oem;protocol=file"
> 
> I am not too sure but this should be file://, You may have to fix above line.
> 
>     SRCREV = "4db17f482b0bdcdcf5658c7d323cc563eb78556a"
>     inherit autotools
> 
>     Here's the warning from 'devtool modify':
>     WARNING: No source unpacked to S - either the phoenix-oem recipe
> doesn't use any source or the correct source directory could not be
> determined
> 
>     If I change either the SRC_URI or the SRCREV to be invalid, I get an error
> instead of a warning so it's definitely finding the local repo.
> 
>     I can't figure out why none of the files in my commit are making it into the
> unpack directory.  Any ideas or tips on debugging?  I also tried using  a .tar.gz
> file instead of a local git repo and had the same result.
>