On 04/03/13 23:06, Allan McRae wrote: > On 04/03/13 22:58, Jan Steffens wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >>> This would mean --holdver would not work when a project has submodules >>> given these would be updated. Also, that would require an internet >>> connection during "extracting" the sources, but --holdver is suppose to >>> allow offline VCS builds. Is there a way we can avoid this? >>> >>> Anyone else got anything to add here? >>> >>> Allan >> >> The state of the submodules is fixed in the commit of the parent repo >> - the submodules are locked to commits as well. >> >> With --recursive, building with an internet connection would work, but >> without would not, as I think it will attempt to get the submodules >> from their sources, not the parent repo. > > Is it possible to improve on that? Can we checkout the submodules earlier? > >> Without --recursive, building would fail in any case, as the >> submodules aren't initialized at all. >> >> So I think adding --recursive is the right thing to do. >>
Pulling patch - if someone cn figure out how to have submodules and have all the source downloaded earlier, that would be good...
