-Khem
On Aug 10, 2012, at 2:07 AM, Phil Blundell <ph...@gnu.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 09:47 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote: >> On Friday 10 August 2012 10:03:06 Koen Kooi wrote: >>> Op 9 aug. 2012, om 03:25 heeft Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com> het volgende >> geschreven: >>>> svn tar balls are 96M as compared to 1.3G git tars >>>> its unnessary to suck in that much of data. >>> >>> That's indeed a big difference and also expected, with svn you only get >>> revision N and N-1, with git you get everything. But even so, I can fetch >>> that 1.3GB a *lot* faster than that 0.1GB svn. Maybe I'm on the wrong side >>> of the ocean, but that gcc svn server is sloooooooooooooooooooooow. >> >> FWIW the git option was much, much, much slower for us here in the UK. > > Maybe we should just go back to using the released tarballs for gcc > rather than any sort of SCM checkout. That would be an 80MB download > for the tar.bz2 and of course you can get it from your local mirror. That's the plan when next release of gcc comes out > > I think the original reason we switched to using the SCM checkout was > that, at the time, we were carrying around a huge number of backported > patches that hadn't quite made it into any released version yet. It's > not totally clear whether that situation is likely to arise again or > not. > > In an ideal world I suppose the SVN web UI would expose some sort of API > that exported changesets in diff form, in which case you could write: > > SRC_URI = "http://gcc.gnu.org/releases/gcc-4.7.1.tar.bz2 \ > http://gcc.gnu.org/svn/fetch?rev=189810"; > > or whatever for the patches that you wanted to backport. But I don't > know of any way of doing that with the current viewvc. > > p. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
