[U-Boot] [ANN] git server, FTP server

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Peter,

In message <CALeDE9NJiqCaE3zhdrS80Fe_P4bfxCG2naW8YhzrHM+WqSHWfw@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> >>> I tried to find a way to download a file with wget or a similar tool, which
> >>> would be used by a distribution builder (like Yocto, Buildroot, OpenWrt, ...).
> >>
> >> Why would any build environment use tarballs?  can you not just
> >> reference the git repository?  This is much more efficient, IMHO.
> >
> > Open Build Service uses tarballs, too. We usually specify full URLs in
> > the RPM .spec file [1] both for documentation of origin and so that the
> > mirrored tarball can be verified via gpg or checksum where available.
> > As the actual build is intentionally done offline, at some point a
> > tarball is needed. The URL could happily be a redirect to some mirror.
> 
> This is the same in Fedora, the builds are done in a constrained
> environment without connectivity to the general internet.

This is normal.  It's the same in any Yocto based environment.  And
probably in any other buil environment that alloes to reliably
reproduce a specific build.  But you can still use git to fetch your
sources - instead of storing a tarball locally, you store a clone of
the git repo.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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