From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:04:34 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/glibc: switch to downloading a tarball In-Reply-To: <20171113213017.19371-1-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> (Yann E. MORIN's message of "Mon, 13 Nov 2017 22:30:17 +0100") References: <20171113213017.19371-1-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <8760ad2eql.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN writes: > Currently, we do a full git clone of the repository, which takes quite > some time, especially on slow networks. > This was done like that because the initial patch was using the official > repository as the source of the download, and that repository did not > offer remotely-generated tarballs. > But now we've switched to using a mirror on github, which does provide > such a tarball, which provides faster downloads. > Use that. > However, the tarball from github differs from the one we were generating > locally, because the paths inside are different. WE used to create a > archive with paths starting with glibc-glibc-2.26-73-g4b692dfb95[...], > while github does away with the git-describe prefix, and generates paths > that start with just glibc-4b692dffb95[...]. The content are exactly > identicall (checked with a diff), though. > Update the hash accordingly. > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" > Cc: Waldemar Brodkorb > Cc: Romain Naour > Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni > Cc: Peter Korsgaard Committed, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard