On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 at 15:05, Alexander Kanavin via
lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 at 15:03, Jasper Orschulko
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Sadly it wouldn't. Auto-generated github archives are known to be
> > > non-deterministic, and we even have a qa check to ensure no recipe is
> > > using them. I didn't raise this point because my objections are on
> > > the
> > > principle of using release tarballs, not this technicality.
> >
> > Ah ok, that is interesting. Could you please elaborate on the non-
> > deterministic nature of the github archives? This information could be
> > vital for the Osselot project as well, as they currently use said
> > archives as the data basis.
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/921787/ covers the subject well, I think.

Oh, and before I forget: Alberto (in cc) has recently done some work
in bitbake to enable file-level source tracing, presumably for exact
same purpose as you are, so I'd suggest you discuss what kind of
approach he envisions (or maybe has implemented).

Alex
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