From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 08:58:17 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 25/26] linux: allow specification of a custom Git repository as a source In-Reply-To: <201105301914.49620.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <201105301914.49620.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <20110531085817.5a7107eb@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Mike, On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:14:47 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > when we already posted a patch to do this, we were shot down because people > wanted a general git solution that'd work for all packages (somehow). is that > no longer the case ? The proposal I'm making is different from the one you and others submitted in that it reuses the generic package infrastructure to perform the git download. This is exactly the reason why I "shot down" previous attempts of implementing this. Of course, contrary to normal packages for which we support a single version at a time, defined in the package .mk file, the Linux kernel, U-Boot and other very hardware-related components have configurable versions. So even if the package infrastructure is used, each of the Linux kernel, U-Boot and others have to carry their own set of Kconfig knobs to select the Git repository and version. But I don't see any way of doing this in a better way. Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com