Re: Help with GL_TUPLE syntax

Dear Gleb,

Am 26.10.2025 um 10:32 schrieb Gleb Popov:
> Notice the double "_build/_build" piece in the last element of the
> tuple. This is a common source of confusion, because for technical
> reasons it is impossible to use : as another separator here.
> So, these are actually two elements - a distfile group and a subdir
> where to put the unpacked distfile.
> In your case you end up with two tuples using the same group called
> "_build". Renaming it fixes the issueL
>
> GL_TUPLE= gitlab-org:git:v${GITLAB_GIT_VERSION}:git_dep/_build/deps/git-v${GITLAB_GIT_VERSION_SHORT}
> \
>      gitlab-org:git:${GITLAB_GIT_MASTER_VERSION}:git_master_dep/_build/deps/git-master

wow, thank you so much for that information.
This is really confusing if you do not know and I learned something new ;)

I will rebuild everything and make a full test run run again.
Hopefully I can release 18.4.3 of gitlab today.


Gruß
Matthias

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