Re: do_adjust_git in dpkg-base.class

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

I never was a fan of that messing with git step. Unfortunately my patch
against bitbake was never merged, one that would use true clones and
eliminate the problem with the "link".

At the moment you have to live with that. Maybe we can find a way of
patching the git argv from within the fetcher implementation of Isar.

Henning

Am Thu, 7 Feb 2019 13:03:58 +0000
schrieb "[ext] Lisicki, Raphael" <raphael.lisicki@siemens.com>:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> the function do_adjust_git in dpkg-base.class breaks git for all
> operations outside of the buildchroot. E.g. it is not possible to use
> git in a prepare_build command, as it is not yet done in the
> buildchroot, but the git adjustment has already been done. I would
> suggest to move the call to do_adjust_git into dpkg_do_mounts and
> maybe even undo it afterwards, so that targets that run after build
> can also have access to a working git repo.
> 
> Best regards
> Raphael Lisicki
>