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

[Koen Kooi]

Op 10 aug. 2012, om 11:07 heeft Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> het volgende geschreven:

> On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 09:47 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Maybe we should just go back to using the released tarballs for gcc
> rather than any sort of SCM checkout.  That would be an 80MB download
> for the tar.bz2 and of course you can get it from your local mirror.
> 
> I think the original reason we switched to using the SCM checkout was
> that, at the time, we were carrying around a huge number of backported
> patches that hadn't quite made it into any released version yet.

We pointed it at the release branch, so updating from x.y.0 to x.y.4 was just a srcrev change. But the same can be done by exporting the patches with git-format-patch and importing them into the OE tree.

regards,

Koen