From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nathanael D. Noblet Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:29:31 -0700 Subject: [Buildroot] Suggestion, Keep version in a separate file. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1162848571.7568.21.camel@iridium.gnat.ca> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 22:29 +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote: > I believe it would be a good > idea to separate the version > info and download site > from the .mk. > and keep a central file > with this info. > > This would make it easier > to handle several projects > using different versions > of packages with the same > framework. > As part of this I think patches > to packages should reside > in a subdirectory to the > main package directory. Though I don't know if the implementation idea is the same, I would *love* a system that allows me to build multiple root fs, and keep the versions of all packages etc. so that I can reproduce it at will and/or upgrade a package version for only one target. I started working on something similar to what you are suggesting, but then my RAID 5 array had 1 drive die, and bad blocks on the second grrrr so I've lost all that I had done. I would be interested in helping. I think the main point to success for something like this is that without any work on everyone elses part buildroot needs to continue to function as it does now for the most part, but those of us that want to be able to use it as you describe could, without much difficulty. -- Nathanael D. Noblet Gnat Solutions, Inc