From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:43:02 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Allowing to build from Git branches In-Reply-To: <20200115144048.424279f5@windsurf> References: <20200114220401.61700031@windsurf> <20200115090044.5b9d56d0@windsurf> <20200115144048.424279f5@windsurf> Message-ID: <20200115204302.GG22540@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas, All, On 2020-01-15 14:40 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:54:16 +0100 > Christophe Blaess wrote: > > Would it be possible to have an option on a per-package basis to always > > by-pass the DL_DIR mechanism and re-fetch the sources? > > Yes, that would definitely be an idea. There was some discussion > yesterday evening about this on IRC with Yann E. Morin, and indeed one > of the idea that came up is to have something like > _DOWNLOAD_TRANSIENT = YES, which would tell the download > infrastructure to refetch from upstream everytime the package is built > instead of using a locally available tarball. I've jsut sent a proof-of-concept of this 'transient' mchanism, which turned out to be relatively easy to come up with; there is even far more boilerplate and documentation that actual code to implement the feature. http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2020-January/271660.html Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 561 099 427 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'