From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
Buildroot Mailman <buildroot@buildroot.org>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] <PACKAGE>_SOURCE with <PACKAGE>_SITE_METHOD = git can result to tar.gz with mismatched file extension
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 18:23:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221203182323.30a07da3@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221203160506.GD3302@scaer>
Hello,
On Sat, 3 Dec 2022 17:05:06 +0100
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> > Yann, thoughts? (1) seems easier to me, I don't know if the benefits of
> > (2) are really relevant.
>
> I think the only meaningful solution is to go for (1): detect and abort.
> I too do not think letting packages each request a different compression
> would be interesting...
>
> If we believe that gzip is too slow/big, then we can think about
> switching to another scheme globaly, but that's orthogonal...
Actually, (2) would have an advantage: it would allow to migrate from
one compression to another package per package, instead of requiring a
flag day where we switch all VCS-fetched packages to the new
compression.
Best regards,
Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-02 14:02 [Buildroot] <PACKAGE>_SOURCE with <PACKAGE>_SITE_METHOD = git can result to tar.gz with mismatched file extension Bagas Sanjaya
2022-12-03 14:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2022-12-03 16:05 ` Yann E. MORIN
2022-12-03 17:23 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
2022-12-03 18:14 ` Yann E. MORIN
2022-12-04 12:31 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2022-12-04 14:05 ` Yann E. MORIN
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