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 1NWQ1a-0007Kp-IV for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:58:21 +0100 Received: from cpe00195b4acfae-cm001adea99f3e.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([99.235.244.96] helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NWPzR-0007Zq-5Y for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:56:05 -0500 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:55:18 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: 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: Re: 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: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:58:21 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Rolf Leggewie wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > following up on a thread from the bitbake dev ML, what is the > > purpose of actual tarballs in the OE dev repository? > > best way to find out is probably to do a "git log > --finde-copies-harder" on the files in question and asking the > committers directly is probably the best way to find out. > > If they have otherwise no home on the net, I'm sure we can provide > hosting somewhere. good plan, i'll take a look at that later today, thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================