Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4] Create a .gitignore file in the CANONICAL_O directory

From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Bryan Brattlof <bb@ti.com>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>,
	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>,
	Brandon Maier <brandon.maier@collins.com>,
	buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4] Create a .gitignore file in the CANONICAL_O directory
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:08:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240723100852.17ddd3e5@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240722234911.2u4obhhk6srzomsr@bryanbrattlof.com>

Hello,

On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:49:11 -0500
Bryan Brattlof <bb@ti.com> wrote:

> For some odd reason this seems to have broken 
> python-jsonschema-specifications in a fairly weird way that I'm not 
> fully sure I understand. 
> 
> Somehow when downloading the source with this patch applied the build 
> will succeed but it will never be installed in the host directory. 
> Reverting this patch and deleting the package in the dl/ directory fixes 
> everything. (at least for TI's reference boards)
> 
> I'll continue to look into this, just wanted to start the thread just in 
> the off chance someone else is doing the same :)

Interesting, thanks for the heads up on this. I don't know if I'll have
the time to look into this right now, but I can imagine that the
package is somehow using git, and the fact that a .gitignore file
exists breaks stuff?

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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