From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Graham Newton Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:51:48 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Using Kernel git tree tries to extract non extractable file In-Reply-To: <20120412150825.2b1d1057@skate> References: <20120412150825.2b1d1057@skate> Message-ID: <4F86DDF4.6050807@peavey-eu.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 12/04/12 14:08, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Le Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:33:43 +0000 (UTC), > Graham a ?crit : > >> I would have thought that as git provides a source tree "as is" there >> is no need to uncompress. > When you specify the source of a package as a git tree, what Buildroot > keeps inside the dl/ directory is a tarball of the sources, as > generated by 'git archive'. For the corresponding code, see the > DOWNLOAD_GIT macro in package/Makefile.package.in. > I was just wading through that bit when your mail arrived. I see what is happening now. >> Output : >> linux 2.6.34 Downloading >> Initialized empty Git repository >> in /home/gnewton/buildroot-2012.02/dl/linux- 2.6.34/ >> remote: Counting objects: 1901116, done. >> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (315962/315962), done. >> remote: Total 1901116 (delta 1568013), reused 1900830 (delta 1567732) >> Receiving objects: 100% (1901116/1901116), 443.51 MiB | 19.29 MiB/s, >> done. Resolving deltas: 100% (1568013/1568013), done. >> fatal: Not a valid object name > Hint: this is the problem. The > BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT_VERSION="2.6.34" you're passing is not a > valid version name: it should be a commit hash, or the name of a tag, > or the name of a branch. This is where your problem is. > Of course!!! > However, it is not normal that Buildroot does not abort here on such > error, this should be fixed. > > Regards, > > Thomas Thanks for the quick reply that has really helped. I have only had a passing acquaintance with buildroot before but I am liking what I am seeing so far. Graham