gtristan commented on PR #15:
URL: 
https://github.com/apache/buildstream-plugins/pull/15#issuecomment-1173628745

   > Maybe I'll let your past self answer the question: 
https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/bst-external/-/merge_requests/157#note_836698782
   
   Gotcha.
   
   > This is not exactly correct for tar either. tar has a shortcut that makes 
it not download unconditionally.
   
   At fetch time we use the etag feature to avoid already downloaded tarballs. 
At track time the presumption is that we must determine what the `sha` is, so 
we must unconditionally download it to determine the sha.
   


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