[OE-core] GCC recipe using git?

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> I see that the gcc-6.x recipe is using git instead of a tarball.
> Is there any way to go back to using tar?  I ship mirrored sources
> to my customers (many are behind corporate firewalls and have limited
> network access).  The file sizes are so vastly different and it's
> quite the burden to have to carry around a 2.5GB file...
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas   95661481 Jun  3 15:54
> sources/gcc-5.4.0.tar.bz2
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas 2525826872 Jul 12 16:42
> sources/git2_github.com.gcc-mirror.gcc.tar.gz
>

I know this issue, however, I am counting on 6.2 point release coming
soon hopefully by next month at that time we will roll forward with
tarball. At this point
we are ahead of 6.1 with several patches and would be a pain to revert to using
tar + patch, I would like to avoid that

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