Dear Peter, In message <calede9njiqcae3zhdrs80fe_p4bfxcg2naw8yhzrhm+wqsh...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > >>> I tried to find a way to download a file with wget or a similar tool, > >>> which > >>> would be used by a distribution builder (like Yocto, Buildroot, OpenWrt, > >>> ...). > >> > >> Why would any build environment use tarballs? can you not just > >> reference the git repository? This is much more efficient, IMHO. > > > > Open Build Service uses tarballs, too. We usually specify full URLs in > > the RPM .spec file [1] both for documentation of origin and so that the > > mirrored tarball can be verified via gpg or checksum where available. > > As the actual build is intentionally done offline, at some point a > > tarball is needed. The URL could happily be a redirect to some mirror. > > This is the same in Fedora, the builds are done in a constrained > environment without connectivity to the general internet.
This is normal. It's the same in any Yocto based environment. And probably in any other buil environment that alloes to reliably reproduce a specific build. But you can still use git to fetch your sources - instead of storing a tarball locally, you store a clone of the git repo. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de 1000 pains = 1 Megahertz _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
