On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Gary Thomas <g...@mlbassoc.com> wrote: > I see that the gcc-6.x recipe is using git instead of a tarball. > Is there any way to go back to using tar? I ship mirrored sources > to my customers (many are behind corporate firewalls and have limited > network access). The file sizes are so vastly different and it's > quite the burden to have to carry around a 2.5GB file... > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas 95661481 Jun 3 15:54 > sources/gcc-5.4.0.tar.bz2 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas 2525826872 Jul 12 16:42 > sources/git2_github.com.gcc-mirror.gcc.tar.gz >
I know this issue, however, I am counting on 6.2 point release coming soon hopefully by next month at that time we will roll forward with tarball. At this point we are ahead of 6.1 with several patches and would be a pain to revert to using tar + patch, I would like to avoid that > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Gary Thomas | Consulting for the > MLB Associates | Embedded world > ------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
