[Buildroot] [PATCH] libevent: use github call

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Oct 12 17:25:45 UTC 2014


Dear Maxime Hadjinlian,

On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 19:22:43 +0200, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote:

> To put everything cleary in a mail:
> 
> When a maintainer do a release from github, there's two possibilities:
> Either you don't upload a file, then the tarball you download is
> generated from the tag.
> 
> Or you upload a file, and then the tarball, is *NOT* generated, it's
> the file that you uploaded.
> 
> Since the hepers, will call the http URL of github (and not doing a
> git clone), for me the github helper is used for any generated
> tarball.
> *BUT* if the releases is a manually uploaded file, then we have to
> uses the http link and not the helper. I'd recommend to put a comments
> on each one theses cases.
> 
> In the case of libevent, the link from the website points to the
> release on github, which is a generated tarball, not an uploaded one.
> So the uses of the helper is perfectly fine here.
> 
> Hope I gave enough details here, maybe this should be put in the
> manual ? Don't know if it's really usefull.

Makes sense, especially when you add the information that the github
helper doesn't provide a git URL that will lead to a git clone, but a
http URL that will lead to wget-ing a tarball.

So, fine with using the github helper here.

Thanks,

Thomas
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