binutils snapshot builds

[Sam James]

"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@elastic.org> 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