On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Anthonys Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > On 07/04/2016 00:08, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: >>> >>> Imho, IF we do something like this, we should use the git facilities to >>> >create a shallow clone backup, that people can then use ftp or rsync or >>> > some >>> >other interruptible protocol to download. >> >> We have been doing that for years: >> >> http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ >> > That should then make this whole discussion moot then? Just modify the > instructtions to warn newcomers that master *can* be broken, and if they > want a known-good build to start with, go and get a bundle rather than using > clone. Once thye've got a good build they can "git pull" and go from there.
the bundle is not guarantee to build anymore than a random master... It is just that we regularly (in fact is a cron iirc) tar-gz core.git and other repo, precisely for people that have trouble doing a git clone on a big repo Norbert _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice