[OE-core] [RFT][PATCH V2] eglibc-2.16: Use tar ball instead of svn SRC_URI

[Khem Raj]

On Oct 17, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 17:42 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>        Adapt the recipes to fetch a tarball.
>>        Tarball is generated from latest 2.16 branch
>>        which has e500-math_private.patch already applied
>>        hence we remove that patch.
>> 
>>        Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
>> 
>> What the motivation to move to the tarball?
> 
> svn:// recipes depend on subversion-native. Having switched to the new
> ubversion version, we've in a nasty position of it being hard to
> ASSUME_PROVIDED with the API breakage.
> 
> Building subversion-native is a pain and delays the core part of the
> build significantly. Switching to tarball recipes should improve our
> build speed a lot.
> 
> So its mainly for performance reasons that we should do this.
> 
> My only question is whether we need to include the svn revision in the
> tarball name?

may be yes thats a fine idea, I thought I would do it but it slipped my mind
I think its fine to rename the tar files the revision they are generated from is
21224. I will ask them to be renamed.


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
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