On Tue, Mar 5, 2013, at 01:58 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > 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... > > > >
Thanks Allan! -- Neer Sighted http://neersighted.com | [email protected] {01DC2056}
