On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:06:30AM +0000, fis trivial wrote:
> * gnu/packages/opencl.scm (pocl): Update to 1.2.

Thanks!

>      (source
>       (origin
> -       (method git-fetch)
> -       (uri (git-reference
> -             (url "https://github.com/pocl/pocl.git")
> -             (commit (string-append "v" version))))
> -       (file-name (git-file-name name version))
> +       (method url-fetch)
> +       (uri (string-append
> +             "https://github.com/pocl/pocl/archive/v"
> +             version".tar.gz"))

Is there a particular reason to use the tarball instead of the Git repo
here? I ask because Github's autogenerated tarballs are subject to
change [0], which is annoying, whereas the Git repo should be
bit-identical forever.

[0] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/4343