From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:48:24 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Unable to download Linux "master" on 2018.05 release In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20180717144824.223ae7f2@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:43:53 +0000, Evgeniy Didin wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Recently I have faced with an error trying to download "master" version of Torvalds Linux branch. I am using 2018.05 tag of buildroot. > Here is part of my defconfig: > -----------------------------------------------8<---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y > BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT=y > BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_URL="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git" > BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_REPO_VERSION="master" > BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="hsdk" > ----------------------------------------------->8---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fetching from a Git branch name is not supported. It used to work by accident, but now it no longer works at all. It's a bad thing to do, because Buildroot will never refetch that branch once it has cached a tarball linux-master.tar.gz. However, it is on our TODO list to provide an explicit error message when this situation arise. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com