From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NWEaa-0001NF-Uj for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:45:44 +0100 Received: from cpe002129687b04-cm001225dbafb6.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([99.235.241.187] helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NWEYS-00061B-Rp for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:43:28 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:42:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: OpenEmbedded Development mailing list Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openembedded.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 64.235.106.9 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: what's the purpose of tarballs in the OE repo? X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:45:44 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII following up on a thread from the bitbake dev ML, what is the purpose of actual tarballs in the OE dev repository? $ find . -name *tar.gz ./recipes/firmwares/marvell-gspi-fw/9.70.3-p37.tar.gz ./recipes/firmwares/marvell-sdio-fw/9.70.3-p37.tar.gz ./recipes/x-load/files/x-loader-03.00.00.01.tar.gz ./recipes/sgalib/sgalib-0.1.0/sgalib-0.1.0.tar.gz ./recipes/qpealarmclock/qpealarmclockapplet-1.0.9/missing-files.tar.gz ./recipes/zaurus-utils/files/gnu-tar.gz $ $ find . -name *tar.bz2 ./recipes/powervr-drivers/omap3-sgx-modules/omap3-sgx-modules-1.3.13.1607.tar.bz2 ./recipes/supertux/files/supertux-smallsize-data.tar.bz2 $ i assume they're there because they're not available for unrestricted download from somewhere on the net, but is that the case for all of them? shouldn't some of them be moved into a net repo somewhere? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================