[Buildroot] [buildroot 0005234]: Selecting MTD utils from git doesn't give you the HEAD

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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=5234 
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Reported By:                mjd
Assigned To:                buildroot
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Project:                    buildroot
Issue ID:                   5234
Category:                   Other
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             10-03-2008 09:40 PDT
Last Modified:              10-06-2008 22:00 PDT
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Summary:                    Selecting MTD utils from git doesn't give you the
HEAD
Description: 
If you turn on BR2_PACKAGE_MTD_UTILS_GIT, you can get the mtd-utils
source code from the Linux MTD project's GIT server, rather than use
source that is 1 or 2 years old.

I would have thought that the whole point of this is so that you can
get the latest-and-greatest mtd-utils source.  But
package/mtd/mtd-utils.git/mtd.mk hard-codes a particular (now
out-of-date)
version of mtd-utils.

This patch ensures that getting mtd-utils source from git gets the head
from Linux MTD.
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 mjd - 10-03-08 09:42  
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diff -x config -u -r
buildroot-mtcba-g1-pristine/package/mtd/mtd-utils.git/mtd.mk
buildroot-mtcba-g1/package/mtd/mtd-utils.git/mtd.mk
---
buildroot-mtcba-g1-pristine/package/mtd/mtd-utils.git/mtd.mk	2008-08-03
14:11:27.000000000 +1000
+++ buildroot-mtcba-g1/package/mtd/mtd-utils.git/mtd.mk	2008-09-30
17:45:07.000000000 +1000
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # mtd provides jffs2 utilities
 #
 #############################################################
-MTD_VERSION:=fcb52ccc99679460640386c297023f852b108f68
+MTD_VERSION:=HEAD
 MTD_SOURCE:=mtd-utils-$(MTD_VERSION).tar.gz

MTD_URL:=http://git.infradead.org/mtd-utils.git?a=snapshot;h=$(MTD_VERSION);sf=tgz
 MTD_HOST_DIR:= $(TOOL_BUILD_DIR)/mtd-utils-$(MTD_VERSION) 

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 bernhardf - 10-03-08 10:01  
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may i suggest you add a
config BR2_PACKAGE_MTD_UTILS_GIT_REVISION
  string "git revision"
  default "HEAD" if !BR2_avr
  default "the_previous_hash" if BR2_avr32
  help
    Here you can enter the git revision you want to use.
    Usually this will be "HEAD", but if you could add some other
    hash here.

Just a thought.. 

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 mjd - 10-03-08 16:47  
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Hi bernhardf, I like that idea.  However my config.in-fu is not yet good
enough to do what you suggested.  If you want to do it, could you (or
someone else) write it and try it out please? 

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 mjd - 10-03-08 16:49  
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Guys, there may be a problem with using mtd-util from HEAD.  Please give me
a little time to work out what's happening with that code. 

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 egtvedt - 10-06-08 22:00  
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There is also no need to special handle AVR32. AVR32 works fine with the
latest release of MTD. 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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10-03-08 09:40  mjd            New Issue                                    
10-03-08 09:40  mjd            Status                   new => assigned     
10-03-08 09:40  mjd            Assigned To               => buildroot       
10-03-08 09:40  mjd            File Added: mtd-utils-git-from-head-1.diff       
            
10-03-08 09:42  mjd            Note Added: 0012684                          
10-03-08 10:01  bernhardf      Note Added: 0012694                          
10-03-08 16:47  mjd            Note Added: 0012714                          
10-03-08 16:49  mjd            Note Added: 0012724                          
10-06-08 22:00  egtvedt        Note Added: 0012904                          
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