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-rw-r--r--scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
index 055bdef436..54e7e85396 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
@@ -433,6 +433,9 @@ def create_recipe(args):
source = 'file://%s' % os.path.abspath(source)
if scriptutils.is_src_url(source):
+ # Warn about github archive URLs
+ if re.match('https?://github.com/[^/]+/[^/]+/archive/.+(\.tar\..*|\.zip)$', source):
+ logger.warn('github archive files are not guaranteed to be stable and may be re-generated over time. If the latter occurs, the checksums will likely change and the recipe will fail at do_fetch. It is recommended that you point to an actual commit or tag in the repository instead (using the repository URL in conjunction with the -S/--srcrev option).')
# Fetch a URL
fetchuri = reformat_git_uri(urldefrag(source)[0])
if args.binary: