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

[Allan McRae]

On 04/03/13 23:06, Allan McRae wrote:
> 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.
>>

Pulling patch - if someone cn figure out how to have submodules and have
all the source downloaded earlier, that would be good...