[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/5] package: add generic support for lz archives

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Peter, All,

On 2017-02-16 23:03 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> writes:
>  > Actually, there is a use-case for being able to specify some of those,
>  > at least the downloaders: git, wget, svn, scp...
> 
>  > I use a script that is called in lieue of each downloader:
> 
>  >     BR2_WGET="/path/to/wrapper wget --passive-ftp -nd -t 3"
>  >     BR2_GIT="/path/to/wrapper git"
>  >     and so on...
> 
>  > That script is responsible for memorising, for each package, whether it
>  > was downloaded from the primary mirror, the official site, or the backup
>  > mirror, then acts according to where the package was downloaded:
[--SNIP--]
> Nice, but presumably you could also simply create a directory with
> wget/git/svn/.. symlinks to your wrapper and prepend that to your path
> before running buildroot, and then change the wrapper to do its stuff
> and call further in the path for the real tool, similar to the recently
> added date wrapper for reproducable builds?

Indeed, that would be doable, if a little bit more involved in the
wrapper. But not something overly complex either.

So, overriding the downloaders is in fact not strictly required.

Thanks!

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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