github archive URLs are not guaranteed to be stable [1] and thus we should show a warning if a user specifies one to recipetool create (or devtool add).
[1] http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2017-September/142519.html Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <[email protected]> --- scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py index 055bdef..54e7e85 100644 --- a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py +++ b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py @@ -433,6 +433,9 @@ def create_recipe(args): source = 'file://%s' % os.path.abspath(source) if scriptutils.is_src_url(source): + # Warn about github archive URLs + if re.match('https?://github.com/[^/]+/[^/]+/archive/.+(\.tar\..*|\.zip)$', source): + logger.warn('github archive files are not guaranteed to be stable and may be re-generated over time. If the latter occurs, the checksums will likely change and the recipe will fail at do_fetch. It is recommended that you point to an actual commit or tag in the repository instead (using the repository URL in conjunction with the -S/--srcrev option).') # Fetch a URL fetchuri = reformat_git_uri(urldefrag(source)[0]) if args.binary: -- 2.9.5 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
