From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hamish Moffatt Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 16:19:41 +1100 Subject: [Buildroot] [buildroot 0005234]: Selecting MTD utils from git doesn't give you the HEAD In-Reply-To: <532a9ee2ed7a6e52612f1f2e0680f030@bugs.uclibc.org> References: <532a9ee2ed7a6e52612f1f2e0680f030@bugs.uclibc.org> Message-ID: <20081007051941.GD5127@cloud.net.au> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:42:04AM -0700, bugs at busybox.net wrote: > ############################################################# > -MTD_VERSION:=fcb52ccc99679460640386c297023f852b108f68 > +MTD_VERSION:=HEAD Not a good idea. I did this originally. Problem is that it'll download head once, but nothing will cause it to download head again (unless you remove the .tar.gz from the sources directory). AND you don't know what version you have either if you want to rebuild later. Also, the patches won't necessarily apply to a later version. A configuration option would be an improvement though it doesn't solve the patch problem. I think it really needs manual intervention, which is how it came to be how it is now. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB