Sorry, got carried away whilst battling a cold.
I retract this patch, but stand by the opkg-utils patch.
Ross
From: Alex Stewart
Date: Thursday, 6 October 2022 at 16:52
To: Ross Burton
Cc: nd , openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] opkg: use a git
NACK.
The downloads.yoctoproject.org fileserver isn't a dynamic cgit snapshot.
Those are static tarballs that I manually create every opkg release. [1]
[1] https://git.yoctoproject.org/opkg/tree/scripts/make-dist.sh
On 10/6/22 08:31, Ross Burton wrote:
opkg fetches using a cgit snapshot of
opkg fetches using a cgit snapshot of a tag, which is not reproducible as
the tag could move, not reliable as a future dynamic snapshot could have
a different checksum, and a waste of CPU load as these tarballs are built
on demand.
Switch opkg to use a proper git clone of the relevant SHA.
Signed
