On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 12:30:55PM +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 at 18:54, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@...> wrote:

Not necessarily. Providing latest LTS kernels for Dunfell also seems very
specific. For every extra year of official support for Dunfell, this can
offer a new LTS kernel version, that can be selected by PREFERRED_VERSION.
Creating a new branch for each kernel version seems wasteful. But I can do
that as well, if needed.

Hello Denys,

if I would like to add a 'dunfell/gizmo' branch to that repository, how
would it work if a given build needs both the kernel and the gizmo? Is the
repo supposed to be cloned twice into two separate locations on disk?
The page
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Stable_Release_and_LTS#LTS_.E2.80.9CMixin.E2.80.9D_repositories
doesn't make it clear either.

Yes, I believe that was the intended usage:
$ git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-lts-mixins -b dunfell/kernel meta-lts-kernel-mixin
$ git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-lts-mixins -b dunfell/gizmo meta-lts-gizmo-mixin

When TSC discussed the process for Mixin layers, we wanted them to be slim
single-purpose layers and using branches instead of whole git repos seemed
reasonable. Especially since we were not envisioning too many of them. But
if it proves to be a problem in the future, we can certainly revisit it then.

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