From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rob Landley Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:36:35 -0400 Subject: [Buildroot] selecting busybox releases In-Reply-To: <19455.63.193.249.101.1154900344.squirrel@webmail.aerende.com> References: <19455.63.193.249.101.1154900344.squirrel@webmail.aerende.com> Message-ID: <200608072036.35524.rob@landley.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Sunday 06 August 2006 5:39 pm, jtesta at aerende.com wrote: > Once I have a stable version of buildroot compiled, > how do I guarantee that I always get the same version > of the packages, say busybox for example? > > I tried unselecting the "Use the daily snaphost of Busybox" > but that started to download another version. I recommend using the release version of busybox unless you either want to help us debug the thing or else need a specific new feature that wasn't in the latest release version. Daily snapshots of busybox can have all sorts of random half-finished stuff in them, but we try to stabilize -devel into a new release every few months. 1.2.0 came out June 30, and 1.2.1 (a bugfixes only dot-release) was only a week or two back. So at this point, the busybox -devel tree has only accumulated a little over a month's worth of new changes, and we plan to have our next release including the new development (1.3.0) in December. uClibc may go a year between releases (technically it has 10 more days until this is the case), and buildroot itself may never have an actual stable release with a version number and everything, but the current BusyBox maintainer is kind of big into the whole concept. :) > Thanks, > > Jim Rob -- Never bet against the cheap plastic solution.