[OE-core] [PATCH 2/7] archiver.bbclass: New bbclass for archiving sources, patches, logs and scripts

[Xiaofeng Yan]

On 2012年03月20日 22:41, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 03/20/2012 03:00 AM, Anders Darander wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:49, Xiaofeng 
>> Yan<xiaofeng.yan at windriver.com>  wrote:
>>> On 2012年03月20日 17:40, Xiaofeng Yan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2012年03月20日 16:07, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Op 20 mrt. 2012, om 06:50 heeft Xiaofeng Yan het volgende geschreven:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2012年03月20日 05:04, Saul Wold wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 03/15/2012 11:23 PM, Xiaofeng Yan wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From: Xiaofeng Yan<xiaofeng.yan at windriver.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why do you rebuild the tarball here are rename it instead of just
>>>>>>> copying the original tarball?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> because many packages come from non-tarball and they could be git
>>>>>> sources , So I archive these sources after do_unpack.
>>>>>
>>>>> But if you have the original tarball and reuse it, you'll get the 
>>>>> warm
>>>>> fuzzy feeling of matching checksums.
>>>>
>>>> So How about  renaming archive-original-source to
>>>> archive-prepatched-source?
>>>
>>> Hi Saul,
>>>
>>> Or I can add a new functions to get tarball from downloads if have 
>>> tarball
>>> and archive source codes directory if have directory without tarball.
>>> Do you think it is necessary for us to add this function?
>>
>> I'd say that this is a change that should be made. If nothing else,
>> just to get the assurance that the archived tarball's are the same as
>> the ones that was used to build the system. (This is beneficial both
>> when it comes to using the archived tarballs for rebuilding the
>> system, as well as for ensuring licence compliance).
>>
> I agree here, as Koen also pointed out, it will have matching checksums.
>
> As to the name of the tarball, again best to keep it named the same as 
> the original tarball.
>
> Sau!
got it. I will release V4 for this feature this week.
>
>> /Anders
>>
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