From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] buildroot:download: Add option to download SVN or GIT repository with version control information.
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:47:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101220174700.30536384@surf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292863020.2560.22.camel@dubciaranr0.verifone.com>
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:37:00 +0000
Quotient Remainder <quotientvremainder@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The idea is that if you override the source directory of a package with
> > <pkg>_OVERRIDE_DIR, Buildroot wouldn't look at <pkg>_VERSION anymore.
> > It's completely up to the developer to use <pkg>_OVERRIDE_DIR to point
> > to a directory that contains the correct version for the sources.
>
> But going back to what I said eariler, it'd be a pity if Buildroot
> didn't help out with this. Couldn't the VCS feature *use* the override
> feature as well as adding some support for actually managing these
> repositories?
I don't see how that would work, while keeping a sane semantic that
users can understand.
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-20 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-16 9:49 [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] buildroot:download: Add option to download SVN or GIT repository with version control information Sonic Zhang
2010-12-16 9:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] buildroot:linux: Add options to checkout Linux kernel source from SVN or GIT repository Sonic Zhang
2010-12-17 10:40 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-12-16 14:19 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] buildroot:download: Add option to download SVN or GIT repository with version control information Quotient Remainder
2010-12-17 2:44 ` Sonic Zhang
2010-12-16 21:22 ` Lionel Landwerlin
2010-12-17 2:52 ` Sonic Zhang
2010-12-17 10:34 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-12-17 13:11 ` Quotient Remainder
2010-12-20 14:05 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-12-20 16:04 ` Quotient Remainder
2010-12-20 16:08 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2010-12-20 16:37 ` Quotient Remainder
2010-12-20 16:47 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2010-12-20 9:11 ` Sonic Zhang
2010-12-20 11:37 ` Daniel Nyström
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