[U-Boot] [ANN] git server, FTP server

[Peter Robinson]

>>> I tried to find a way to download a file with wget or a similar tool, which
>>> would be used by a distribution builder (like Yocto, Buildroot, OpenWrt, ...).
>>
>> 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.
> As the actual build is intentionally done offline, at some point a
> tarball is needed. The URL could happily be a redirect to some mirror.

This is the same in Fedora, the builds are done in a constrained
environment without connectivity to the general internet.

Peter