[Buildroot] Feature request - pull sources from repose

[Buildroot] Feature request - pull sources from repose

[James Hanley]

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.

[Buildroot] Feature request - pull sources from repose

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:06:18 -0400,
James Hanley <jhanley@dgtlrift.com> 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 :

<pkg>_SITE = git://foobar.com/barfoo.git
<pkg>_SITE_METHOD = git
<pkg>_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

[Buildroot] Feature request - pull sources from repose

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Thu, 7 Jul 2011 16:19:43 +0200,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> a ?crit :

> This is already implemented. In a package, you can do :
> 
> <pkg>_SITE = git://foobar.com/barfoo.git
> <pkg>_SITE_METHOD = git
> <pkg>_VERSION = some-git-tag-or-commit-id-or-branch
> 
> Same with Subversion and Bazaar.

I should probably have said that this wouldn't work with uClibc. This
is due to the fact that uClibc is not a normal Buildroot package that
relies on the common infrastructure. It's a very special component,
built by its own Makefile.

However, we have an option to build an uClibc snapshot tarball. If you
just tell Buildroot to do this, it will grab the latest daily tarball
of uClibc. You can also tell Buildroot to select an arbitrary tarball,
by date.

Regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] Feature request - pull sources from repose

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "James" == James Hanley <jhanley@dgtlrift.com> writes:

 James> Right now, buildroot downloads sources from released tarball urls, it
 James> would be great if they could also pull from source repositories (git,
 James> svn, etc.) to get unreleased features. For example I ran into an issue
 James> with uclibc which was fixed but not yet released.  It may also assist
 James> in weeding out integration issues before package release.

I see Thomas already answered you, but what problem was this exactly and
what uClibc git commit fixed it? Probably we can backport it to 0.9.32
and include it in buildroot.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

[Buildroot] Feature request - pull sources from repose

[James Hanley]

I meant to reply all - sorry Peter for the double message.

I used this patch
http://lists.uclibc.org/pipermail/uclibc-cvs/2011-June/029684.html
with some modification - specifically where he used
int nsig = _NSIG / 8;
I used
const int nsig = _NSIG / 8;



On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "James" == James Hanley <jhanley@dgtlrift.com> writes:
>
> ?James> Right now, buildroot downloads sources from released tarball urls, it
> ?James> would be great if they could also pull from source repositories (git,
> ?James> svn, etc.) to get unreleased features. For example I ran into an issue
> ?James> with uclibc which was fixed but not yet released. ?It may also assist
> ?James> in weeding out integration issues before package release.
>
> I see Thomas already answered you, but what problem was this exactly and
> what uClibc git commit fixed it? Probably we can backport it to 0.9.32
> and include it in buildroot.
>
> --
> Bye, Peter Korsgaard
>

[Buildroot] Feature request - pull sources from repose

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "James" == James Hanley <jhanley@dgtlrift.com> writes:

 James> I meant to reply all - sorry Peter for the double message.
 James> I used this patch
 James> http://lists.uclibc.org/pipermail/uclibc-cvs/2011-June/029684.html
 James> with some modification - specifically where he used
 James> int nsig = _NSIG / 8;
 James> I used
 James> const int nsig = _NSIG / 8;

Ok, we have that one since Wednesday.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard