From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 09:13:49 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC] package: Redownload HEAD packages every build In-Reply-To: References: <1380293015-20331-1-git-send-email-clshotwe@rockwellcollins.com> <20131001205154.059ec4af@skate> <20131001233739.618eb9f0@skate> Message-ID: <20131002091349.652d110c@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Ryan Barnett, On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:54:04 -0500, Ryan Barnett wrote: > > Buildroot will rsync again the source code, and restart the build at > > the configuration step, or the build step of the foo package. > > > > Usually, /path/to/foo/sources/ will be the directory where you did your > > Subversion checkout or Git clone of your "foo" source code. > > Could you add this explanation to buildroot manual since it looks like > _OVERRIDE_SRCDIR mechanism is your feature and it is currently > lacking in documentation in the manual? I too have tried to understand > how this feature worked and it was a bit unclear. > > The only mention of OVERRIDE_SRCDIR in the documentation is under the > rebuild and reconfigure commands. Where is says that it that it only > makes sense to use these features with OVERRIDE_SRCDIR but doesn't > explain what you just explained above. Right, I will submit a documentation patch. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com