Re: [RFT][PATCH V2] eglibc-2.16: Use tar ball instead of svn SRC_URI

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 17:42 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
>         Adapt the recipes to fetch a tarball.
>         Tarball is generated from latest 2.16 branch
>         which has e500-math_private.patch already applied
>         hence we remove that patch.
>
>         Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
>
> What the motivation to move to the tarball?

svn:// recipes depend on subversion-native. Having switched to the new
ubversion version, we've in a nasty position of it being hard to
ASSUME_PROVIDED with the API breakage.

Building subversion-native is a pain and delays the core part of the
build significantly. Switching to tarball recipes should improve our
build speed a lot.

So its mainly for performance reasons that we should do this.

My only question is whether we need to include the svn revision in the
tarball name?

Cheers,

Richard