On 4 May 2018 at 13:46, Paulo Neves <ptsne...@gmail.com> 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? >
Tarballs are easier to mirror, smaller, have checksums to verify the download at both fetch and unpack time, and often contain generated files which otherwise require yet more tools to regenerate (for example, man pages may require a documentation toolchain to build from git but will be included in a tarball). > 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. I certainly hope this is using devupstream.bbclass or similar and isn't a giant copy/paste! Ross
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