Re: [meta-virtualization] Podman version mismatch

On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 7:15 AM Bruce Ashfield via lists.yoctoproject.org
<[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 2:11 AM Peter Marko via lists.yoctoproject.org
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> meta-virtualization has hardly any recipe which fetches exactly git tag.
>> So things like this are unfortunately expected.
>> In the past I have sent couple updates to mailing list to use real
>> versions, but without success, so I gave up.
>>
>>
> Thanks for the encouragement of the 10+ years of
> maintaining meta-virtualization!
>
> The reason they aren't exact git tags or exact releases is that those
> hashes stay valid
> for such a short time that it simply isn't worth it. And there's
> certaining no value in
> constantly bouncing the files through _<version>.bb and the _git.bb every
> time I
> move off an exact release tag.
>
> Maintaining all this many recipes, that move this quickly by stacking
> patches on to
> languages that don't patch all that way would simply be chaos.
>
> Patrick: there's nothing wrong with script that was intentional on the
> version.
>
>
In this case, I looked a bit more closely, upstream is doing something
different
which did in fact make the script report a different version than the
version in
the code:

build4 [/home/bruc...git/libpod]> git describe --tags
v5.8.2-5-g88c5aaeec6
build4 [/home/bruc...git/libpod]> git describe
v5.8.2-5-g88c5aaeec6

Which is what my script uses to pick up the base version. But the top commit
on the 5.8 branch:

commit 88c5aaeec667af94c4fe3a5c2c7a42f8cf308b93 (from
28d04eeb8ec047464c35cc6fbe766ca63b49d338) (HEAD -> v5.8, origin/v5.8)
Merge: 28d04eeb8e 7a47175665
Author: Paul Holzinger <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Apr 15 12:01:24 2026 +0200

    Merge pull request #28510 from podmanbot/bump-5.8.3-dev

    Bump Podman to v5.8.3-dev

:100644 100644 9aba2b5c22 39273508b8 M  version/rawversion/version.go

Which is of course what the build is picking up.

I'll have to add a condition to the upgrade tests to pick that up, and/or
see
if I can put it into the scripting logic (it just won't hold across all the
languages
that are used, so it'll be a bit fiddly).

For now, I've manually updated the recipe to match the golang version.

Thanks for catching that!

Bruce



> Which would be easier in your scenario ? (and by your scenario, I mean me
> changing
> the version reporting in the recipe.
>



>
>  - adding the -dev into the PV
>  - injecting the "base" version into the build via -X (or whatever
> mechanism the
>    buld needs) ?
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
>> Having the coming regulations in mind (requiring accurate sbom and cve
>> tracking), I'd recommend everyone using meta-virtualization to just copy
>> any used recipe, correct git hash and update crates.inc.
>>
>
>
>> Peter
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: [email protected] <meta-
>> > [email protected]> On Behalf Of Patrick Vogelaar
>> via
>> > lists.yoctoproject.org
>> > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2026 7:19 AM
>> > To: [email protected]
>> > Subject: [meta-virtualization] Podman version mismatch
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I gave the newly upgraded podman recipe a try but it seems that there
>> is still a
>> > version mismatch.
>> > PV = "5.8.2"  but: podman -v
>> > podman version 5.8.3-dev
>> >
>> > Do you want me to send a patch or do you want to have a look at your
>> update
>> > script?
>> >
>> > Patrick
>>
>>
>>
>>
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