[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/3] package/cal3d: new package

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

Yann,

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 15:25:09 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> But in this precise case, I would:
>   - dump the cal3d package
>   - add a post-download hook (or an extra-download URL) to vsxu to also
>     download cal3d

A post-download hook wouldn't play well with "make source", "make
legal-info" and all. We have to take this into account. But an
EXTRA_DOWNLOADS should work fine.

>   - add a post-extract hook to vsxu to also extract cal3d in the correct
>     location.

Could be a solution, I'll try this.

> Otherwise, for proper git-submodule handling, we would have to do
> (roughly):
> 
>     git clone blabla pkg-version
>     cd pkg-version
>     git checkout pkg-version
>     git submodule update --init --recursive
>     find . -name .git -exec rm -rf {} +
>     cd ..
>     tar czf DL_DIR/pkg-version.tar.gz pkg-version/
> 
> This is not very complex, but is stil la significant change from our
> current git wrapper.
> 
> And then, what about svn externals? About Hg subrepos? Does bzr also
> have such a thing?
> 
> Note that I would not really mind doing such a change. But is it worth
> it, given that we currently have only one package that needs submodules?
> Or do we have others for which we had to "deal with it" in a crude way?

I don't want to go down this route for the moment, I'd prefer to see
how many of these git submodule users we have.

Thomas
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