From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:46:40 +0000 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH V2] openocd: fetch package from git repository and update version In-Reply-To: <20120226043705.GD10670@game.jcrosoft.org> References: <20120224190112.GB10670@game.jcrosoft.org> <20120226043705.GD10670@game.jcrosoft.org> Message-ID: <201202282046.41124.arnout@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Sunday 26 February 2012 04:37:06 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > On 00:06 Sun 26 Feb , Alexandre Pereira da Silva wrote: [snip] > > 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 That's a good reason to NACK the use of the git commit. Thank you for the explanation, Jean-Christophe. > > 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 Difference being that all of those release quite frequently :-) > > 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 Good point as well. With the need for local patches and the occasional local need for a git version rather than a release, you could consider adding git and patches support to openocd's Config.in, like is the case for U-Boot and linux. > > 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. I'm not too keen on that. Although I could be convinced. Such a feature would definitely have to be verified with all current git-based packages. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F