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On 22/02/13 04:51 AM, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On 22 February 2013 20:43, Diego Elio Pettenò
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 22/02/2013 08:37, Kent Fredric wrote:
>>> I'd make sure to add some sort of easy support to switch to 
>>> snapshotted tar.gz installs instead of live git checkouts, ie:
>>> 
>>> GH_SNAPSHOT=deadbeef  # use commit id 'deadbeef' by fetching a
>>> tar.gz from github instead of a git clone
>> 
>> This is not going to fly because a live git checkout does not
>> need digests in the manifest, but a tar.gz snapshot does.
> 
> Though surely you could have behaviour that differs based on the
> right things being specified, so that turning on GH_SNAPSHOT=
> becomes a helper that generates SRC_URI , which in turn makes it so
> you can satisfy the manifest digest requirement.


SRC_URI can't be dynamic though, due to metadata cacheing.  If
GH_SNAPSHOT was always set and its value never changed, it would not
be a problem, but that would seem to contradict the point of this
variable..?



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