From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Braun Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:32:37 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: add option to get sources from custom directory In-Reply-To: <50D0AA87.7010404@mind.be> References: <1354873604-4304-1-git-send-email-rbraun@sceen.net> <20121212105418.601702fc@skate> <20121212101407.GA9848@mail.sceen.net> <50D0AA87.7010404@mind.be> Message-ID: <20130214143237.GA3826@mail.sceen.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 06:40:23PM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > On 12/12/12 11:14, Richard Braun wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:54:18AM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > >>On the other side, Linux, and bootloaders, are kind of special packages > >>in that very often people will have to work on them, and making this > >>easier might be useful. > > > >The fact that the kernel is clearly separate from the other packages in > >menuconfig, and that it already provides several ways of fetching the > >source makes it hard for most people to think of the override mechanism. > >On the other hand, the fact that it's handled almost like any other > >package makes this hack extremely easy and safe to implement. I don't > >see a reason not to provide this fetching method if the others aren't > >also reconsidered (otherwise I wouldn't have bothered sending it > >anyway). > > I agree. I think that if we provide several methods of downloading > in the menuconfig, then all SITE_METHODs should ideally be > supported. In particular svn is probably also of interest to some > people. Ping. -- Richard Braun