On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:31:53AM +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Burton, Ross <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On 21 August 2013 11:24, Laszlo Papp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I am not saying to fix gtk-doc-stub only. I am saying fix the nastiness > >> of using git repositories for released and supposedly stable versions. I do > >> not see why tarball would not be enough for those to work off-hand? That > >> should be the ideal architecture IMHO. > >> > > > > Two good reasons to allow git repositories as a source: > > > > 1) Many projects don't make tarball releases. > > > > That does not mean bitbake cannot generate tarball out of the git > repository. In fact, it is relatively simple. ;-)
It does, all you need to do is enable BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS Versioned tarballs are already tracked by https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1511 > > 2) It's incredibly useful to be able to build from git snapshots for > > development/testing purposes. > > > > I was explicitly mentioning stable and official released variants. > > What you're asking for is the inability to use git repositories in SRC_URI, > > which won't happen. > > > > No, that is not what I am asking. > > Here you can find the feature request: > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5035 > > Cheers, L. > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: [email protected]
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