downloads.openmoko.org tarballs require git-1.4.4 or higher

[autobuild-reports@…]

The package failed to build at 20070416220004

[freyther@…]

Okay I have looked into the issue and git-core 1.5 and 1.4.3 do not have a compatible file format. For
uboot-gta the file is fetched from wget ​http://downloads.openmoko.org/sources/git_www.denx.de.git.u-
boot.git..tar.gz

If you untar it and issue git pull depending on your version of git-core you will see:
fatal: corrupted pack file .git/objects/pack/pack-a146bcbc18f4826d6bf2a7f63be5dd77bbb5b2f5.pack

Proposed resolution:

-Only create such tarballs with the minimum version of git required.
-Remove the tarball
-Require git 1.5 and find a package for debian stable to install on the autobuilder

[laforge@…]

JFYI: the version difference was actually 1.4.4 and 1.4.3.

Removing the tarball is not really an option, since they get automatically
publicized there. This would mean that we'd have to have some blacklist of
files, maintained manually, that can not be put on downloads.openmoko.org

so while i'm not happy with it, the current solution was to update to git-1.4.4
on buildhost-old.openmoko.org (the autobuilder).

Leaving this bug open until we see better solutions coming up.

[freyther@…]

I have restarted the autobuilds after conforming that the installed version (1.4.4.3) is able to pull.

[mickey@…]

closing