fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything

[urako]

All of openwrt installs well just having issues with this. missing tags?

fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. Package: openwisp-fw-base Version:

[urako]

Managed to get past that with changing

PKG_VERSION:=$(shell git describe –tags)

to

PKG_VERSION:=1.3 alpha

in feeds/openwisp/meta/openwisp-fw/Makefile and running

./scripts/feeds update -a

again

Is there any way to prevent this?

[vilpalu]

fork own copy and change it.

[nemesifier]

@urako thank you for telling us, we'll look into it @claudyus @cvalenti @riblo

[urako]

:+1:

[urako]

Still have this one aswell

fatal: No tags can describe 'ada6e16203c0a17ff700fb3651ec8cc79c4fa3c7'

Do not know how to tag that

[claudyus]

We can fallback in using a fixed string like:

PKG_VERSION:=$(git describe --tags 2> /dev/null || echo no-git) # just an example

or save a release file somewhere and remember to update it during release phase:

PKG_VERSION:=$(git describe --tags 2> /dev/null || cat some_where_version_file)

I'm anyway against a fixed PKG_VERSION that doesn't follow the git progress.

[urako]

Tried your example

PKG_VERSION:=$(git describe --tags 2> /dev/null || echo no-git) # just an example

same result

I have also tried

..openwrt$ git describe --always ada6e1

as suggested by

fatal: No tags can describe 'ada6e16203c0a17ff700fb3651ec8cc79c4fa3c7'. Try --always, or create some tags.

but still in

logs/package/feeds/openwisp/openwisp-fw/dump.txt

there is

Makefile:100: *\ Package/openwisp-fw-base is missing the VERSION field. Stop.

[urako]

git tag 1.3-alpha-38-gada6e16 ada6e16

solved it for me now, and able to compile the bins, yaay!