From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:05:53 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] feature or pebkac In-Reply-To: <20130829111708.c603e5bf976541d3abd3a43a@lavabit.com> References: <20130829111708.c603e5bf976541d3abd3a43a@lavabit.com> Message-ID: <521F9B91.7040903@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 08/29/13 20:17, rh wrote: > I have found that changing the url for a custom kernel tar ball does not > trigger a rebuild when running make. I have removed linux-custom dir > and then make fetches the new tar ball and rebuilds. That's right. Buildroot doesn't try to be perfect for rebuilds when the configuration changes - but if it is simple to fix, patches are welcome! > I have found that when I specify a kernel git repo that I get the whole > repo. If you specify a tag, then it should do a shallow clone. > But I don't need all that and I now use --single-branch argument > to git clone followed by git archive to create a tar ball. That's a great idea! However, this option is only available since git 1.7.10 and I think that many production environments still have older git versions. > I do this for repos > that have no snapshot or tar ball. I thought that this feature might exist > but I couldn't find it. Maybe I can edit some config manually? There's no config for that, it's part of the core infrastructure. Regards, Arnout > > Would it be a useful feature for others if it's not there now? > > _______________________________________________ > buildroot mailing list > buildroot at busybox.net > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot > -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 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