[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] package/bird: bump version to 2.0.3

Adrien Gallouët adrien at gallouet.fr
Mon Feb 4 15:03:25 UTC 2019


On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 3:41 PM Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Please keep the mailing list in Cc and avoid top-posting. Thanks!

Sorry, I'll double check from now :)

>
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 15:17:44 +0100
> Adrien Gallouët <adrien at gallouet.fr> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Yes (I think). We can still download the first tag of BIRD released 9yrs
> > ago.
>
> Well, that it is not really the question I was asking. My question is
> whether this tarball is always *exactly* identical. As you say, it's a
> tarball generated automatically. Since we store a hash of the tarball
> in bird.hash, if gitlab does some subtle changes in how the tarball is
> generated, the hash will change, breaking the download.

They moved from something like archive.tar.gz?ref=<ref> to <repo>-<ref>.tar.gz
so there is no guarantee AFAIK but they are sensible to this like github.

BIRD ppl use an ftp server: ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/ for packaging
maybe it is preferable to use it ?

>
> We had this issue with Github in the past.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> https://bootlin.com



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