[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: Use a recursive git clone.

[Allan McRae]

On 04/03/13 22:58, Jan Steffens wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> This would mean --holdver would not work when a project has submodules
>> given these would be updated.  Also, that would require an internet
>> connection during "extracting" the sources, but --holdver is suppose to
>> allow offline VCS builds.   Is there a way we can avoid this?
>>
>> Anyone else got anything to add here?
>>
>> Allan
> 
> The state of the submodules is fixed in the commit of the parent repo
> - the submodules are locked to commits as well.
> 
> With --recursive, building with an internet connection would work, but
> without would not, as I think it will attempt to get the submodules
> from their sources, not the parent repo.

Is it possible to improve on that?  Can we checkout the submodules earlier?

> Without --recursive, building would fail in any case, as the
> submodules aren't initialized at all.
> 
> So I think adding --recursive is the right thing to do.
> 
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