From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:47:00 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] buildroot:download: Add option to download SVN or GIT repository with version control information. In-Reply-To: <1292863020.2560.22.camel@dubciaranr0.verifone.com> References: <1292492992-15797-1-git-send-email-sonic.adi@gmail.com> <20101217113436.43ec2958@surf> <1292591501.6496.58.camel@dubciaranr0.verifone.com> <20101220150504.4dcf2e18@surf> <1292861049.2560.17.camel@dubciaranr0.verifone.com> <20101220170850.78a29a16@surf> <1292863020.2560.22.camel@dubciaranr0.verifone.com> Message-ID: <20101220174700.30536384@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:37:00 +0000 Quotient Remainder wrote: > > The idea is that if you override the source directory of a package with > > _OVERRIDE_DIR, Buildroot wouldn't look at _VERSION anymore. > > It's completely up to the developer to use _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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com