From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:13:33 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/15] package: show complete URL for external-deps In-Reply-To: <87zki3wuhj.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> References: <9a55925fbd5588fb01890a48d15a46b06c93fed4.1314826231.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <87zki3wuhj.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20110917091333.6d80760b@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:31:04 +0200, Peter Korsgaard a ?crit : > Hmm, the uses case for external-deps were: > > - What files from the dl/ dir do I need to copy over to new machine > to be able to build this config without internet connectivity? > > - What files do I need to archive (next to buildroot) to ensure I can > rebuild this config in years to come? > > - What files do I need to provide to customers in addition to > buildroot for GPL compliance? > > For all of those the upstream URL isn't really interesting Ok. To me this sounds like a strange behaviour for something called "external-deps", I would have expected to see the *external* dependencies, i.e what I need from the Internet, besides Buildroot, to be able to build my system. > - Perhaps we should fix the svn/bzr/git helpers instead? What should they show ? The name of the local tarball that has been created after the svn checkout / git clone ? And what should we display in the case of a local package (as added by this patchset) ? Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com