Re: [PATCH] Make sure git repos are usable inside buildchroot

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2018-02-14 10:43, Alexander Smirnov wrote:
> On 02/14/2018 12:30 PM, Henning Schild wrote:
>> There is a similar patch from Alex floating around. My opinion is
> 
> Thanks for the reference ;-)

Sorry, forgot about this.

> 
>> still, this should be fixed upstream and we can wait. After all nobody
>> forces anyone to use git and most git-servers should offer tarballs,
>> which are probably often faster than git.
>>
>> I would rather mark git as broken in the fetcher, but that might just
>> me a result of me not liking git at all ;).
> 
> More easy workaround is also floating on the list:
> 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/isar-users/sAcJqSx_vqs/wetXTcMLCQAJ;context-place=forum/isar-users
> 
> 
> Just repack objects to working dir.

But this one is better than everything proposed so far because

a) it's transparent to the user (in contrast to the current bitbake
   proposal)

b) it preservers the efficiency of --shared (in contrast to repacking)

We can easily revert this patch again once bitbake upstream provides a
transparent solution as well.

Jan

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