Re: [Buildroot] downloads: removing git repos and offline builds

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2024-11-20, Andreas Ziegler <br015@umbiko.net> wrote:
> On 2024-11-19 16:12, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> [...] A question has come up with opkg-utils.  It downloads a
>> source tarball and clones a git repository:
>> [...] 
>> Actually, I'm not entirely sure whether it downloaded that tarball or
>> created it from the git repository -- I now suspect the latter.
>
> The order is git repository -> tarball -> build directory.  The git
> repository will be reused or recreated if either the package version
> changes or the tarball is removed. I use this behaviour occasionally
> to 'fake' package versions.

Thanks for confirming that.

>> [....] Requiring offline builds for production firmware can't be
>> that unusual.
>> 
>> Is just removing the git repo and archiving the tarball how people
>> usually deal with this situation?
>
> Any objections to just using a line in .gitignore?
>
>    downloads/*/git

Not really, that should work fine. I initially decided to remove it
just to be sure whether or not it actually needed to be there to do a
build.

--
Grant



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