Re: [PATCH 01/42] gcc: Add gcc6 recipes

From: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/42] gcc: Add gcc6 recipes
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 18:05:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160602160535.GA2571@jama> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1570473.5iIQe2jHu3@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com>

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On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 10:23:35AM +1200, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:20:23 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Tue, 31 May 2016 11:12:21 Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> > > On 11 May 2016 at 20:35, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > +#BASEURI ?= "${GNU_MIRROR}/gcc/gcc-${PV}/gcc-${PV}.tar.bz2"
> > > > +BASEURI ?= "git://
> > > > github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc;branch=gcc-6-branch;protocol=git"
> > > 
> > > I guess this is where git2_github.com.gcc-mirror.gcc.tar.gz download comes
> > > from? It increased the size of my downloads-directory by >30% -- and I
> > > must
> > > have quite a bit of old junk in that directory already.
> > > 
> > > Is there no other solution to this than a 2.5G git copy (honest question,
> > > I
> > > don't know gcc)?
> > 
> > We went down this road before and it wasn't great for users. There is at
> > least a tarball for 6.1, we'd presumably need some patches on top of that
> > (~43 if we were to simply take what's in the gcc-6-branch between 6.1 and
> > bd9a826, minus the "daily bumps").
> 
> Perhaps that was a little unclear - when I say "we went down this road before" 
> I'm agreeing with Jussi - we pointed to a git branch in a previous release 
> with the same resulting huge download for everyone, something I think we 
> should avoid if at all possible.

Maybe it's biggest but at least there is only one copy of it:

top 10 in my downloads (archives and then git clones).

823M    /OE/downloads/git2_git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.14.git.tar.gz
831M    /OE/downloads/git2_git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.10.git.tar.gz
893M    /OE/downloads/git2_git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.17.git.tar.gz
934M    /OE/downloads/git2_git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.19.git.tar.gz
969M    /OE/downloads/git2_git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-4.1.git.tar.gz
1.2G    /OE/downloads/git2_git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-dev.git.tar.gz

2.4G    /OE/downloads/git2_github.com.gcc-mirror.gcc.tar.gz

854M    /OE/downloads/git2/github.com.qtproject.qtwebengine-chromium.git

877M    /OE/downloads/git2/git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.10.git
900M    /OE/downloads/git2/git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.14.git
921M    /OE/downloads/git2/git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.17.git
964M    /OE/downloads/git2/git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-3.19.git
999M    /OE/downloads/git2/git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-4.1.git
1.3G    /OE/downloads/git2/git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-dev.git
2.3G    /OE/downloads/git2/git.yoctoproject.org.linux-yocto-4.4.git

> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
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> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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