From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:03:57 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/4] pkg-infra: differentiate remote and local tarball filenames (branch yem/download) In-Reply-To: <546BAE62.2020606@mind.be> References: <20141116122210.6b3651e0@free-electrons.com> <546BAE62.2020606@mind.be> Message-ID: <20141118220357.74bc954c@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Arnout Vandecappelle, On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:38:58 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > I think there are two reasons for the split: > > 1. _SOURCE can be dropped if it is -.tar.gz - this would be > difficult if we only had _SITE. True. But on the other hand, the fact that we use -.tar.gz by default has always confused newcomers a bit, and with .tar.xz becoming more and more adopted, having .tar.gz as the default is less obvious than it used to be. > 2. _PATH and _EXTRA_DOWNLOAD don't need to specify the full URL. Well, yes, but that's specifically the issue I raised: since you don't specify the full URL, there's no way for the package to download patches or other stuff from other places than _SITE. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com