From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulf Samuelsson Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:16:48 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot maintainer and stable releases In-Reply-To: <20090107181337.GB14648@zelow.no> References: <87prj1v4dy.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1231243376.32308.52.camel@elrond.atmel.com> <87vdsssiwo.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <200901070409.42558.markus.heidelberg@web.de> <1231326832.32308.320.camel@elrond.atmel.com> <87prizl5im.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1231330238.32308.334.camel@elrond.atmel.com> <20090107181337.GB14648@zelow.no> Message-ID: <1231355808.32308.414.camel@elrond.atmel.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net ons 2009-01-07 klockan 19:13 +0100 skrev Thomas Lundquist: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:10:38PM +0100, Ulf Samuelsson wrote: > > > > It is not fixed by a system which has stable distributions > > which are removed and replaced with another stable > > distribution which breaks support for a number of systems. > > Replaced? It's versioned (and tagged in the VCS) so it's not > that an old version just ends up in /dev/null > > The main issue regarding older releases is that the source packages might > not be available where they used to be. That's a different issue > that seems to be addressed anyway. > When we release a distribution, then all needed packages in that distribution needs to be mirrored somewhere. This was a key requirement when I pestered Atmel Norway to replace their build scripts with buildroot, and I think HCE has implemented it. There is a scripts/wget.sh which I will have a look at. > > Thomas. > _______________________________________________ > buildroot mailing list > buildroot at busybox.net > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot