From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:40:23 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: add option to get sources from custom directory In-Reply-To: <20121212101407.GA9848@mail.sceen.net> References: <1354873604-4304-1-git-send-email-rbraun@sceen.net> <20121212105418.601702fc@skate> <20121212101407.GA9848@mail.sceen.net> Message-ID: <50D0AA87.7010404@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 12/12/12 11:14, Richard Braun wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:54:18AM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >> On the other side, Linux, and bootloaders, are kind of special packages >> in that very often people will have to work on them, and making this >> easier might be useful. > > The fact that the kernel is clearly separate from the other packages in > menuconfig, and that it already provides several ways of fetching the > source makes it hard for most people to think of the override mechanism. > On the other hand, the fact that it's handled almost like any other > package makes this hack extremely easy and safe to implement. I don't > see a reason not to provide this fetching method if the others aren't > also reconsidered (otherwise I wouldn't have bothered sending it > anyway). I agree. I think that if we provide several methods of downloading in the menuconfig, then all SITE_METHODs should ideally be supported. In particular svn is probably also of interest to some people. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F