[OE-core] [PATCH 1/4] gcc: Switch SRC_URI to use svn

[Khem Raj]

On Wednesday, September 12, 2012, Richard Purdie <
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 20:44 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2012-09-05 22:35, Khem Raj wrote:
>> > svn tar balls are 96M as compared to 1.3G git tars
>> > its unnessary to suck in that much of data.
>> >
>> > Fixes [YOCTO #2908]
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
>>
>> What about this patch?   Carrying around a 1.7GB (Sorry, Khem, that's
the size of my tar ball!)
>> is a bit much, especially when that's what I send to my customers...
>
> I've been hoping to find some time to do something with the fetcher to
> try and fix this corner we've ended up pinned into.
>
> Ideally I'd like to see both gcc and eglibc using git, we have git in
> ASSUME_PROVIDED and everything is optimal.
>
> I'm not going to reach the release point without doing something about
> this but I would like to stick with git if we can possibly help it.
>
> Having to build subversion-native for critical path components is a
> major pain and performance issue.
>

I agree but then 1.7 GB is noticeably huge too and it will only become
larger in future so I don't think fetching from git will be a good solution
for gcc ever. I was thinking we could Generate tar ball ourselves and put
it on yp mirror. And in future use up stream release tar balls.
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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