On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 11:22 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: > Op 10 aug. 2012, om 11:07 heeft Phil Blundell <[email protected]> het volgende > geschreven: > > > On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 09:47 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote: > >> On Friday 10 August 2012 10:03:06 Koen Kooi wrote: > >>> Op 9 aug. 2012, om 03:25 heeft Khem Raj <[email protected]> het volgende > >> geschreven: > >>>> svn tar balls are 96M as compared to 1.3G git tars > >>>> its unnessary to suck in that much of data. > >>> > >>> That's indeed a big difference and also expected, with svn you only get > >>> revision N and N-1, with git you get everything. But even so, I can fetch > >>> that 1.3GB a *lot* faster than that 0.1GB svn. Maybe I'm on the wrong side > >>> of the ocean, but that gcc svn server is sloooooooooooooooooooooow. > >> > >> FWIW the git option was much, much, much slower for us here in the UK. > > > > Maybe we should just go back to using the released tarballs for gcc > > rather than any sort of SCM checkout. That would be an 80MB download > > for the tar.bz2 and of course you can get it from your local mirror. > > > > I think the original reason we switched to using the SCM checkout was > > that, at the time, we were carrying around a huge number of backported > > patches that hadn't quite made it into any released version yet. > > We pointed it at the release branch, so updating from x.y.0 to x.y.4 was just > a srcrev change. But the same can be done by exporting the patches with > git-format-patch and importing them into the OE tree.
Right. Or, once x.y.4 actually gets released, it would be available as a tarball in its own right anyway. The only time when it's at all tricky is the period just before that happens, when there are potentially-important fixes in the gcc-x.y branch that aren't yet in any released version. But, as you say, we can just import those as patches and I think/hope their number should be fairly limited. p. _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
