{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linux-sunxi/meta-sunxi/issues/99","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linux-sunxi/meta-sunxi/issues/99/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linux-sunxi/meta-sunxi/issues/99/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linux-sunxi/meta-sunxi/issues/99/events","html_url":"https://github.com/linux-sunxi/meta-sunxi/issues/99","id":96249757,"number":99,"title":"Linux: very slow fetching of mainline kernel - migrate from git to tar.xz?","user":{"login":"KristofRobot","id":5243257,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5243257?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofRobot","html_url":"https://github.com/KristofRobot","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofRobot/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofRobot/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofRobot/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofRobot/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofRobot/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofRobot/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofRobot/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofRobot/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofRobot/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-07-21T07:33:18Z","updated_at":"2015-07-22T08:31:56Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I am encountering very slow fetch times of the mainline kernel from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git (see https://github.com/linux-sunxi/meta-sunxi/blob/master/recipes-kernel/linux/linux_4.1.bb)\r\n\r\nIs there any reason we don't just fetch the compressed tar.xz package from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.1.2.tar.xz? That seems to be a lot faster in my case."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linux-sunxi/meta-sunxi/issues/comments/123615865","html_url":"https://github.com/linux-sunxi/meta-sunxi/issues/99#issuecomment-123615865","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linux-sunxi/meta-sunxi/issues/99","id":123615865,"user":{"login":"Noxenious","id":6508987,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6508987?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Noxenious","html_url":"https://github.com/Noxenious","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Noxenious/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Noxenious/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Noxenious/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Noxenious/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Noxenious/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Noxenious/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Noxenious/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Noxenious/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Noxenious/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-07-22T08:31:56Z","updated_at":"2015-07-22T08:31:56Z","body":"There was a discussion about a similar issue for raspberry pi on the yocto mailinglist (which has not been concluded as far as I know).\r\n\r\nFetching the kernel via git is slow and used a lot of space but makes it possible to target specific commits and makes it possible to easy change the git url to a forked copy or other repository.\r\n\r\nFetching it via package is faster, uses less space in the build system but makes it only possible to use released versions.\r\n\r\nFor my development I like the advantages of the git fetch, but maybe for the general public the package version is better?"}}