From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:52:11 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC] Revert "Added local directory as source of kernel code" In-Reply-To: <20161212173527.GC3509@free.fr> References: <1467066844-28355-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <20160827222353.02bc0df2@free-electrons.com> <87twe4aav2.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20160828214805.GE5758@free.fr> <20160829091638.1236158a@free-electrons.com> <20161212173527.GC3509@free.fr> Message-ID: <20161212185211.41d61776@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:35:27 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > But what I want is to be able to use local sources fior Qt5 that I > prepare for my board; so I'll want to add the same feature for Qt5. > Then Thomas will want to use local sources for barebox; so he'll want to > add the same feature for barebox. Then Peter will need it for whatever, > so he'll want to add it for that as well... One could however say (with good reason) that the Linux kernel, and a few other HW-related packages (bootloaders) are special. And indeed, for those packages (Linux, U-Boot, Barebox, etc.), we do support fetching from custom Git/Mercurial/etc. repositories. But we would never do that for *all* packages. So Linux is already special compared to other packages in that respect, and this argument could be used (and in fact was used) to add a feature like BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_LOCAL_PATH. But as I said, I don't really feel very strongly about this. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com