On 2018/08/18 07:21, Jason Valencia wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > Gitlab still builds tars on the fly doesn't it, even with tags? (So > > they may change later and fail distinfo checks). Self hosting, or > > adding upstream to upload a tar somewhere, would be better. > I think so. But since we really only need two text files, we can > download directly from the online blob. This has the added benefit that > it will be the same across git mirrors, unlike tars. > > Right now that's being done with a git ref, but I've contacted upstream > about tagging a version that could be used instead. >
Really the best thing to do is roll a tarball, it avoids all sorts of mess ...
