On 22 February 2013 20:43, Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: > On 22/02/2013 08:37, Kent Fredric wrote: >> I'd make sure to add some sort of easy support to switch to >> snapshotted tar.gz installs instead of live git checkouts, ie: >> >> GH_SNAPSHOT=deadbeef # use commit id 'deadbeef' by fetching a tar.gz >> from github instead of a git clone > > This is not going to fly because a live git checkout does not need > digests in the manifest, but a tar.gz snapshot does.
Though surely you could have behaviour that differs based on the right things being specified, so that turning on GH_SNAPSHOT= becomes a helper that generates SRC_URI , which in turn makes it so you can satisfy the manifest digest requirement. -- Kent
