Re: [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH] firmware.inc: Fetch a zip instead of cloning a git repo

["Petter Mabäcker" <petter@technux.se>]

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On 06/26/2015 04:16 PM, Jon Szymaniak wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com 
> <mailto:ross.burton@intel.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 26 June 2015 at 05:16, Jon Szymaniak <jon.szymaniak@gmail.com
>     <mailto:jon.szymaniak@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         GitHub provides this ability to download repository contents at
>         a specified changeset as a zip file. This is generally *much*
>         quicker
>         than fetching the entire git repository.
>
>
>     Github also can and will regenerate these tarballs whenever it
>     feels like it, so you'll need to periodically update the
>     checksums.  Obviously as existing developers will tend to have the
>     tarballs cached locally, it can be a while before this failure is
>     reported back.
>
>     A better solution might be to add support for "depth" to the git
>     fetcher, so you can grab just the commit you are interested in
>     instead of the entire repository.
>
>     Ross
>
>
> Hi Ross,
>
> Excellent point about the regeneration potentially yielding different 
> checksums.  I suppose they could change the compression level they use 
> at any moment in time... I'll look into adding that depth support to 
> the fetcher, as that doesn't look too hard at all.
>
> I'm open to other suggestions as well, as this was just a first stab 
> at it. I've been seeing that cloning this git repo containing binary 
> firmware blobs takes an absurd amount of time, if it even finishes at 
> all successfully.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
>

Hi Jon,

Any news about this? I have also used a very similar changeset like you 
suggests (use .zip from github) ontop of meta-raspberrypi when building, 
to get rid of the annoying problem that it takes a very long time or 
even worse that you get a timeout.

My suggestion is to go for the .zip changeset at least until --depth=1 
is supported in the git fetcher.

@Andrei any comments from your side regarding this discussion?

BR,
Petter



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