[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] iperf3: update to version 3.1.5 and download via git

[Daniel Engberg]

On 2017-01-15 22:06, Daniel Engberg wrote:
> On 2017-01-15 21:56, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>> On Sunday, January 15, 2017 9:25:28 PM CET Daniel Engberg wrote:
>>> Thanks for submitting a patch but can you please outline why we would
>>> want to switch from a tarball release to a git repo pull for iperf3?
>>> 
>> 
>> Actually, it's in the commit. It saves a couple of KiB since we can 
>> switch to
>> xz along the way too. As for iperf 3.1.5 this is:
>> 
>> 550862 Bytes for iperf-3.1.5.tar.gz
>> 
>> vs.
>> 
>> 400468 Bytes for 
>> iperf-3.1.5-a46d5aec9726e196e86ab192c3f77dea6a3beb8e.tar.xz
>> 
>> That's around 27% savings of bandwidth. Because once it's uploaded
>> onto the mirror
>> the download methods will pick it from there - instead of the listed 
>> address.
>> 
>> Anyway, if you have your own idea of how to do it: Then just make a
>> patch as well.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Christian
> 
> I'm all for saving space and bandwidth but as far as I know the common
> practice is to use tarballs where it makes sense (ie pretty much
> everywhere) and upstream download mirrors/sites. Directing all users
> to the LEDE "backup" mirror is not a desirable outcome as there's no
> official xz package. That's just my point of view.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel Engberg

Hi Christian,

I just wanted to information you (as asked by mkresin) that I've 
submitted a pr on GitHub 
(https://github.com/lede-project/source/pull/755) that uses the release 
tarball which is considered to be the preferred way for this package.

Something completely different, great work on the ipq4xx stuff. Any 
plans on upstreaming it?

Best regards,
Daniel