[Buildroot] [PATCH 0 of 9 v4] linux/uboot: add support for custom Mercurial repositories

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,

On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 22:07:49 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

> This series adds support for custom Mercurial repositories in uboot and linux
> packages.
> 
> This version is rebased with the 2013.08 master, there are only a few
> real changes.

Since it seems we have issues deciding what to do with the
Config.in.legacy handling for string options, I was thinking: can't we
just avoid the problem altogether? Instead of having separate Config.in
options for each of Git, Mercurial, SVN and so on, what about just
adding an option "BR2_TARGET_LINUX_CUSTOM_REPO_METHOD" which allows the
user to select git, hg, svn or cvs, and keep the other option names
unchanged. I admit it's a bit funky to keep options such as
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT_REPO_URL to store the location of a
Mercurial repository, but well, since we can't make up your mind on the
Config.in.legacy stuff, maybe that's a way of at least getting your
feature merged.

I'm just thinking of a way to move forward, not sure it's the right
solution.

Best regards,

Thomas
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