[OE-core] [PATCH 01/12] gcc: Switch SRC_URI to use svn

[Koen Kooi]

Op 10 aug. 2012, om 10:47 heeft Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On Friday 10 August 2012 10:03:06 Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Op 9 aug. 2012, om 03:25 heeft Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> 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.


I had similar problems as well when I worked for TI UK, it turned out to be proxy end point issues. After manually assigning an endpoint that was close by things improved a lot. The geo-ip based CDNs worked properly from then on. 
It might be that github suck in the UK, I only have one datapoint for the gcc stuff, which is my own connection at home. I only need to fetch gcc once, so I don't have a strong opinion on this switch, I just wanted to add some anecdotal evidence that the 1.3gb git download isn't all bad :)

regards,

Koen