Using local git repo for recipe development

[Patrick Voelker]

My understanding is that if devtool can't find the source then bitbake won't be able to build it either.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vijay Khemka [mailto:vijaykhemka at fb.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2020 3:10 PM
> To: Patrick Voelker; OpenBMC (openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org)
> Subject: Re: Using local git repo for recipe development
> 
> What are you trying to achieve here, devtool is for local source and you
> already have local source, just build it from there.
> 
> On 10/29/20, 2:33 PM, "Patrick Voelker" <Patrick_Voelker at phoenix.com>
> wrote:
> 
>     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.
>     >
>