[oe] content addressable fetching of packages, through MD5SUM or SHA1SUM?

Rod Whitby rod at whitby.id.au
Mon Mar 3 05:39:57 UTC 2008


Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> I wonder if someone knows about a content addressable file server, or
> content addressable URL server?
> 
> The idea is that the bitbake fetcher does not use the SRC_URI provided
> URL per se, but can fall back to use the SHA1SUM or MD5SUM to ask
> "something" for alternative locations of the package.

Perhaps just put all the sources in a big git repository.  Then you can 
get them directly by SHA1.

-- Rod




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