Hi, thanks for your mail Rafał and I'm very sorry for the late reply…
On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 05:32:02PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > After Holger & Alexander talk at OpenWrt Summit I started thinking > about handling feeds in LEDE. Right now we simply point to external > repositories within feeds.conf(.default): > src-git packages https://git.lede-project.org/feed/packages.git > src-git luci https://git.lede-project.org/project/luci.git > src-git routing https://git.lede-project.org/feed/routing.git > src-git telephony https://git.lede-project.org/feed/telephony.git > > I see few problems with this solution: > > 1) No info on used feeds revisions > Problem: When you get an image you can't say which revisions of feeds > were used to build it. agreed. > Possible solution: Include some extra file with info about each feed > and used revision > > 2) No pointing specific revision > Problem: We always use the latest revision of each feed. It's easy to > hit some problem/regression introduced in a feed without an easy way > of tracking it down. You have to guess which was the latest working > revision. agreed. > Possible solution: Always point specific revision in > feeds.conf.default, e.g. src-git packages > https://git.lede-project.org/feed/packages.git^commithash . > Unfortunately this will require us to update this file over and over. > > 3) The way of specifying revisions > Problem: This is only possible with manually creating a proper > feeds.conf. I'm wondering if this would make sense to make is somehow > more script friendly? Alexander, Holger: what do you think about this? use git tags? > Possible solution: Implement solution suggested in problem 2 or maybe > add support for some env variable(s) pointing revision(s)? > > I think the problem that really needs solving is the first one. The > rest we can probably just discuss (hint: waiting for your opinions). > Right now it's not possible/easy to rebuild image I got downloaded. > Even if I'm ready to create my own feeds.conf I don't know what > revisions to put there. Also please note this is only an introduction > to have binary reproducible builds. and now I will also say: sorry for the lame reply too, or in other words: yes, I agree these problems should be solved, however i'm not much familar with openwrt/lede internals, I basically just know that you have these package feeds. btw, I will be at 33c3 and happy to discuss anything related to reproducible builds there. Either grab me if you see me or send an mail so we can agree on a meeting time+date. -- cheers, Holger
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