$ recipetool create https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/0.32.0/meson-0.32.0.tar.gz NOTE: Fetching git://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/0.32.0/meson-0.32.0.tar.gz;protocol=https... ERROR: Fetcher failure: Fetch command [...] git -c core.fsyncobjectfiles=0 ls-remote https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/0.32.0/meson-0.32.0.tar.gz failed with exit code 128, output: fatal: repository 'https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/0.32.0/meson-0.32.0.tar.gz/' not found That would be oe-core 7998dc35 being over-eager. I guess it should examine the URL further and identify if its a git repo or a tarball (/releases/ or /archives/ should be all cases?)
Fix merged to master: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=12fbed9e60c2d351f5fe5ca7b6c214cd19b11e31
FYI I also added oe-selftest tests for this: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=cc3c276852a0eda15367df7dcae8b1889c2dca8e