[Buildroot] Problem using Linux kernel archive from Gitorious

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 17/01/13 15:47, Aras Vaichas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am configuring Buildroot to use an OMAP-L138/DaVinci CPU. I'd like
> to use the Linux kernel version from
> http://gitorious.org/linux-davinci/linux-davinci/trees/v3.7-davinci1
> which is a specific tag in the git repository.
> 
> In Buildroot I set:
> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL=y
> BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL_LOCATION=http://gitorious.org/linux-davinci/linux-davinci/archive-tarball/v3.7-davinci1

 It's a bit of a hack, but use this URL:

http://gitorious.org/linux-davinci/linux-davinci/archive-tarball/v3.7-davinci1?dummyname=/linux-v3.7-davinci.tar.gz

 The CGI script that is behind that URL will ignore any unknown variables
behind the ? and the download method of buildroot will consider the thing
behind the last / as the filename. So this URL will be split into

LINUX_SITE = http://gitorious.org/linux-davinci/linux-davinci/archive-tarball/v3.7-davinci1?dummyname=
LINUX_SOURCE = linux-v3.7-davinci.tar.gz

 So this gives you a nicely named file in the download directory.


 Note that the gitorious archive URLs have an important disadvantage:
if the archive is not already in the cache, than the site will respond
with a '202 Accepted'.  I think wget treats this as a success, so
buildroot will try to untar that placeholder file.

 Regards,
 Arnout
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