[Buildroot] [PATCH V2] openocd: fetch package from git repository and update version

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>]

On 00:06 Sun 26 Feb     , Alexandre Pereira da Silva wrote:
> >> again NACK
> >>
> >> DO NOT USE GIT in the release
> >
> > ?Instead of just shouting at Alexandre, perhaps you can explain why it's
> > a bad idea to use the git version for openocd...
> >
> > ?Alexandre, why do you need a more recent version than the official
> > release?
> 
> The openocd release is 6 months old and they made many improvements
> since then. And I don't see any plans for them to release a new
> version any time soon.
I will release a new version of openocd in time, today the current version is
not stable enough
> 
> Openocd git head is usually more stable than their latest released
> version. Specially if the support for the target you are using is new.
> I have had issues connecting one of my cortex-m3 targets with openocd
> 0.5.0.
> 
> This is a special package like u-boot and the kernel because in many
> occasions you have to tweak the package to suit your own hardware.
The NACK stand

You can do it for your local but for mainline no, barebox/ u-boot, linux are
based on release

> 
> Other option would be to use 0.5.0 version from git, so people who run
> into this kind of issue, can override the version more easily.
NACK

git is very slow to download it's NOT an option at all for default version
> 
> Another comment on this issue is about git submodule fetching. Do you
> think that could be useful to other packages? If so, I can prepare a
> new patch to fetch all submodules, if any.
this is yes

Best Regards,
J.