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projects need way to enforce pinned upstream dist-git/spec reference

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start by locating the TOML project or distro configuration and the azldev command-line entry point. Determine where upstream references are resolved and how stable builds are identified; done means the pinning behavior and its development opt-out are specified and covered by tests.

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Description

area: source management enhancement

For a 'stable' project/distro, all the upstream references should be pinned to a specific date/time or (per-package) dist-git commit hash. This prevents inputs to the stable project build changing over time.

There also should be a mechanism to opt-out (or opt-in) of the upstream pinning for dev work, possibly a (project/distro-wide) parameter in the toml, and/or azldev cmdline param.

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Imported on behalf of @ddstreet

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Go
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18
Forks
29
Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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