From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A66C74CF6 for ; Fri, 4 May 2018 12:54:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 04 May 2018 05:54:09 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.49,362,1520924400"; d="scan'208";a="53174669" Received: from kanavin-desktop.fi.intel.com (HELO [10.237.68.161]) ([10.237.68.161]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 04 May 2018 05:54:08 -0700 To: Paulo Neves References: <20180504123244.43049-1-alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com> <20180504123244.43049-14-alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com> From: Alexander Kanavin Message-ID: Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 15:48:16 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] babeltrace: switch over to git X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 May 2018 12:54:08 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 05/04/2018 03:46 PM, Paulo Neves wrote: > I always wondered, what is the rationale for not always using the git > repositories? If there is one why did we change for this specific > recipe? > > I ask this because I am in the process of creating a massive layer, > whose only purpose is to have the software come from the git > repository and not from the tarballs of the original poky recipes. Git repositories can be much slower to clone, than it would be to download an equivalent tarball. Otherwise, I have no particular preference. Alex