In some cases, upstream just update their releases in-place, without
renaming them. When that package is updated in Buildroot, a new hash to
match the new upstream release is included in the corresponding .hash
file.
As a consequence, users who previously downloaded that package's tarball
with an older version of Buildroot, will get stuck with an old archive
for that package, and after updating their Buildroot copy, will be greeted
with a failed download, due to the local file not matching the new
hashes.
Also, an upstream would sometime serve us HTML garbage instead of the
actual tarball we requested, like SourceForge does from time for as-yet
unknown reasons.
So, to avoid this situation, check the hashes prior to doing the
download. If the hashes match, consider the locally cached file genuine,
and do not download it. However, if the locally cached file does not
match the known hashes we have for it, it is promptly removed, and a
download is re-attempted.
Note: this does not add any overhead compared to the previous situation,
because we were already checking hashes of locally cached files. It just
changes the order in which we do the checks. For the records, here is the
overhead of hashing a 231MiB file (qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6.tar.gz)
on a core-i5 @2.5GHz:
cache-cold cache-hot
sha1 1.914s 0.762s
sha256 2.109s 1.270s
But again, this overhead already existed before this patch.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Instead of repeating the check in our download rules, delegate the check
of the hashes to the download wrapper.
This needs three different changes:
- add a new argument to the download wrapper, that is the full path to
the hash file; if the hash file does not exist, that does not change
the current behaviour, as the existence of the hash file is checked
for in the check-hash script;
- add a third argument to the check-hash script, to be the basename of
the file to check; this is required because we no longer check the
final file with the final filename, but an intermediate file with a
temporary filename;
- do the actual call to the check-hash script from within the download
wrapper.
This further paves the way to doing pre-download checks of the hashes
for the locally cached files.
Note: this patch removes the check for hashes for already downloaded
files, since the wrapper script exits early. The behaviour to check
localy cached files will be restored and enhanced in the following
patch.
[Thomas: fix minor typo in comment.]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Instead of repeating the same test again and again in all our download
rules, just delegate the check for an already downloaded file to the
download wrapper.
This clears up the path for doing the hash checks on a cached file
before the download.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Instead of relying on argument ordering, use actual options in the
download wrapper.
Download backends (bzr, cp, hg...) are left as-is, because it does not
make sense to complexify them, since they are almost very trivial shell
scripts, and adding option parsing would be really overkill.
This commit also renames the script to dl-wrapper so it looks better in
the traces, and it is not confused with another wrapper.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
