20 Jul
2015
20 Jul
'15
9:30 p.m.
Dear Andreas,
In message 55ABD78C.2060108@suse.de you wrote:
Why would any build environment use tarballs? can you not just reference the git repository? This is much more efficient, IMHO.
Open Build Service uses tarballs, too. We usually specify full URLs in the RPM .spec file [1] both for documentation of origin and so that the mirrored tarball can be verified via gpg or checksum where available.
OK, I get the argument.
Well, technically a git repository is better even in this aspect, as it is inherently self-verifying :-)
But no worries, we will keep FTP if there are people who find it useful.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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