From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:38:42 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] longterm kernel releases: version-URI different for v2.x kernels In-Reply-To: <76128FA7-9969-4BC7-B8F8-07F5BEDDD177@ipfabrics.com> References: <76128FA7-9969-4BC7-B8F8-07F5BEDDD177@ipfabrics.com> Message-ID: <20131116113842.1c01a56d@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Rick Robino, On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 23:53:40 -0800, Rick Robino wrote: > I encountered problems automatically downloading kernel version > 2.6.32.61, one of the current longterm releases. It looks like the > URL might have changed, so I thought that I would mention it here in > case this fact might be news to anyone. > > The longterm kernels are in a subdirectory called > ?v2/.6/longterm/vA.B.C?. Buildroot only looks in ?v2.6?, which works > fine for standard kernels but not the longterm ones for 2.6. Yes. Buildroot cannot guess if the kernel version you're using is a "normal" version or a "longterm" version. Therefore, when you choose to only give the kernel version in the configuration, it only looks in 2.6/ or 3.x/. If you need a kernel version that is available in some other location, then you should use the "Custom tarball" configuration choice, which allows you to pass an arbitrary URL to a tarball, either located on kernel.org or on some other place. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com