what's the purpose of tarballs in the OE repo?

what's the purpose of tarballs in the OE repo?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  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
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Re: what's the purpose of tarballs in the OE repo?

[Rolf Leggewie]

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.

Re: what's the purpose of tarballs in the OE repo?

[Robert P. J. Day]

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
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Odp.: what's the purpose of tarballs in the OE repo?

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

>    following up on a thread from the bitbake dev ML, what is the
> purpose of actual tarballs in the OE dev repository?

> ./recipes/firmwares/marvell-gspi-fw/9.70.3-p37.tar.gz
> ./recipes/firmwares/marvell-sdio-fw/9.70.3-p37.tar.gz

Marvell firmware for 8686 wifi/bt module. Available only in their intranet. Redistributable if license is also provided.

> ./recipes/sgalib/sgalib-0.1.0/sgalib-0.1.0.tar.gz

ST-Ericsson Nomadik 8815 platform stuff. Available only on CD added to board, required to build Xserver.

> ./recipes/qpealarmclock/qpealarmclockapplet-1.0.9/missing-files.tar.gz

This is for old software for platform which nearly no one uses now.

> ./recipes/zaurus-utils/files/gnu-tar.gz

ARM OABI tar required by Zaurus updater.

Re: what's the purpose of tarballs in the OE repo?

[Holger Hans Peter Freyther]

On Sunday 17 January 2010 08:55:18 Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   good plan, i'll take a look at that later today, thanks.

thanks for the work you have put into this.

[OT] What does »Odp.« stand for? (was: Odp.: what's the purpose of tarballs in the OE repo?)

[Paul Menzel]

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Dear Marcin,


what dose »Odp.« stand for?

Overall development plan? Is it on that list [1].


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/Outline+Development+Plan

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Re: [OT] What does »Odp.« stand for? (was: Odp.: what's the purpose of tarballs in the OE repo?)

[Phil Blundell]

I guess he has fallen victim to something along the lines of:

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6541

Bx

On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:46 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Marcin,
> 
> 
> what dose »Odp.« stand for?
> 
> Overall development plan? Is it on that list [1].
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> [1] http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/Outline+Development+Plan
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> Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel

Re: what's the purpose of tarballs in the OE repo?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:

> On Sunday 17 January 2010 08:55:18 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >   good plan, i'll take a look at that later today, thanks.
>
> thanks for the work you have put into this.

  not a big deal, i noticed that a couple people have already replied
that they have ideas for how to move some tarballs out of the OE repo.

  i'm well aware that, very occasionally, there are special
circumstances which require that actual content be added to the repo,
but in cases like that, it might be useful to add a README file to the
appropriate recipes directory explaining those circumstances.

  not only would that prevent confusion but, sometime down the road,
someone examining that README file might realize, "hey, those special
circumstances don't apply anymore, we can finally do a proper download
here!", and submit a patch for it.

  or something like that.

rday
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Re: [OT] What does »Odp.« stand for? (was: Odp.: what's the purpose of tarballs in the OE repo?)

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Dnia niedziela, 17 stycznia 2010 o 13:51:33 Phil Blundell napisał(a):
> I guess he has fallen victim to something along the lines of:
> 
> https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6541

Yes, I did. And looking at nokia Maemo team ways of handling it I will be 
affected by that bug for quite long time.

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