-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 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..? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlEnd3gACgkQ2ugaI38ACPCSkQD/eAbmFydGNta2HbUc2YyQYg05 ISKyLksP5PZ4BGbr9fwA/jx6M9pFGbFH2HYkx++MTTKXiLTGs6v3wxT8NjeBK6hv =jUew -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
