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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] package/pkg-utils.mk: add dl_dir to show-info output
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 22:41:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190925204103.GG7274@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190925220223.12bc3db7@windsurf>

Thomas, Arnout, All,

On 2019-09-25 22:02 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sat,  3 Aug 2019 16:04:33 +0200
> "Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)" <arnout@mind.be> wrote:
[--SNIP--]
> > make show-info | jq -r '.[] | ("dl/" + .dl_dir + "/" + .downloads[]?.source)'
[--SNIP--]
> I asked on IRC to Yann what was the difference between this and "make
> external-deps". make external-deps only returns the file name, but not
> its location inside $(BR2_DL_DIR). Perhaps we should change
> external-deps, as it is no longer very useful as it is ? But of course
> that's kind of an API breakage... but moving files into subfolders in
> $(BR2_DL_DIR) was also kind of an API breakage anyway.
> 
> Thoughts?

As much as I like to keep backward compatibility when it makes sense,
external-deps has been broken for ~18 months now (since we moved
downloads to sub-directories), and no one complained. It's even been in
an LTS for 7 months now, and still no complain so far...

Besides, show-info is a versatile and easily extendable solution to
extract this kind of information from Buildroot.

So, what's the point in keeping external-deps?

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-25 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-03 14:04 [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] package/pkg-utils.mk: add dl_dir to show-info output Arnout Vandecappelle
2019-08-03 14:14 ` Yann E. MORIN
2019-09-25 20:02 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2019-09-25 20:41   ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2019-09-25 21:28     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2019-09-26  6:55       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2019-09-26  8:58         ` yann.morin at orange.com

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