From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62CCF3858D33; Thu, 23 May 2024 22:52:08 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 62CCF3858D33 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=gentoo.org Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=gentoo.org ARC-Filter: OpenARC Filter v1.0.0 sourceware.org 62CCF3858D33 Authentication-Results: server2.sourceware.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=sourceware.org; s=key; t=1716504732; cv=none; b=gpB7CCjCq42SOJzksDeLtwu3EVzJwxClQ2KvrCVqTt+e0sSKQN+CWDF186Yx5PtKIxuH1NI1beJ1XfeYW0MwInu2SLCi/kRp29HI87sQglOZPnfDv9+A1+FRQ75B685YsxIn7PXyZ+LprreBkN4Y2hyuStiWzWpMfPQ+kumf/Y8= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=sourceware.org; s=key; t=1716504732; c=relaxed/simple; bh=d+Iq006HzWvDXlwmuD3B9otNg5lbJHp9L9vO4MHM86c=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=ChVinq8F5vKqxZJrTYQlJ7fXNlyGXIItnSEh6RXpJ0qoQbTrX0pGBTP5t89iEtN3Cc4nCCn5ir2slfGPgoAeA9p/0xmXRm2qMoY1xFC7vIRYKlvwZtke9VVkWG5VrY3qgNS4KKZagc0mZPC22hGIbmuw6M5errYg3mHrecGsql4= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; server2.sourceware.org From: Sam James To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: "Jose E. Marchesi" , Mark Wielaard , buildbot@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org, Nick Clifton , elena.zannoni@oracle.com, david.faust@oracle.com Subject: Re: binutils snapshot builds In-Reply-To: (Frank Ch. Eigler's message of "Thu, 23 May 2024 11:28:38 -0400") Organization: Gentoo References: <20240522221523.458943-1-mark@klomp.org> <87y180mukz.fsf@oracle.com> Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 23:52:01 +0100 Message-ID: <87ikz4jg4u.fsf@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: "Frank Ch. Eigler" writes: > Hi - > >> binutils-2.42.50.tar.gz >> What about having: >> binutils-2.42.50-fc12b44ec0e.tar.gz > > (Or else: git-describe.) > >> This would allow for example to easily cache already downloaded >> snapshots on the client side. > > By the way .... could someone spell out in what way these source > tarball snapshots are useful, when the git repo is already easily > available? We can't easily/cheaply mirror git repos for the purposes of consuming within e.g. packaging. It also requires plumbing for outsourcing verification to an external tool as opposed to fetch-somehow-and-compare-checksum. > > > - FChE