[Buildroot] Download tag as archive from gitlab

[Yann E. MORIN]

Angelo, All,

On 2017-03-07 00:28 +0100, Angelo Compagnucci spake thusly:
> I'm hitting some bumps trying to download a tag from gitlab as an
> archive, the url format is like this:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/repository/archive.tar.bz2?ref=v6.9.2
> 
> I can succesfully download the file, but then it's named
> "archive.tar.bz2?ref=v6.9.2" but it cannot be extracted cause it lacks
> an extensions and buildroot cannot choose the right helper to
> decompress it.
> 
> How such an url can be downloaded in buildroot?

The only solution is to download it with a git clone:

    FOO_VERSION = TAG_OR_SHA1
    FOO_SITE = https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce
    FOO_SITE_METHOD = git

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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