[Buildroot] [PATCH v3] package/glibc: switch to using the maintenance branch

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Romain, All,

On 2017-10-28 14:00 +0200, Romain Naour spake thusly:
> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> glibc upstream has ruled against doing regular point-releases, but they
> do have a lot of interesting and important fixes for regressions and
> security.
[--SNIP--]
> diff --git a/package/glibc/glibc.mk b/package/glibc/glibc.mk
> index 0b8b440..d71137b 100644
> --- a/package/glibc/glibc.mk
> +++ b/package/glibc/glibc.mk
> @@ -9,9 +9,16 @@ GLIBC_VERSION =  arc-2017.09-eng010
>  GLIBC_SITE = $(call github,foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors,glibc,$(GLIBC_VERSION))
>  GLIBC_SOURCE = glibc-$(GLIBC_VERSION).tar.gz
>  else
> -GLIBC_VERSION = 2.26
> -GLIBC_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/libc
> -GLIBC_SOURCE = glibc-$(GLIBC_VERSION).tar.xz
> +# Generate version string using:
> +#   git describe --match 'glibc-*' --abbrev=40 origin/release/MAJOR.MINOR/master
> +GLIBC_VERSION = glibc-2.26-73-g4b692dffb95ac4812b161eb6a16113d7e824982e
> +# Upstream doesn't officially provide an https download link.
> +# There is one (https://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git) but it's not reliable,
> +# sometimes the connection time out. So use a git mirror using https.
> +# Before bumping the version, first verify that the sha1 really
> +# exists on the git mirror tree.

No, I really meant "exists in the official git tree".

The idea is that we use the gthub mirror, but it is not official. So
nothing guarantees us that it only contains legit commits.

So, we want to get the version from the *official* git tree, and only do
the download from the mirror.

> +GLIBC_SITE = https://github.com/bminor/glibc.git
> +GLIBC_SITE_METHOD = git
>  endif
>  
>  GLIBC_SRC_SUBDIR = .
> -- 
> 2.9.5
> 

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