From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 16:19:43 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Feature request - pull sources from repose In-Reply-To: <5725744097739393062@unknownmsgid> References: <5725744097739393062@unknownmsgid> Message-ID: <20110707161943.714c9791@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:06:18 -0400, James Hanley a ?crit : > Right now, buildroot downloads sources from released tarball urls, it > would be great if they could also pull from source repositories (git, > svn, etc.) to get unreleased features. For example I ran into an issue > with uclibc which was fixed but not yet released. It may also assist > in weeding out integration issues before package release. This is already implemented. In a package, you can do : _SITE = git://foobar.com/barfoo.git _SITE_METHOD = git _VERSION = some-git-tag-or-commit-id-or-branch Same with Subversion and Bazaar. Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com