From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:50:29 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/4] pkg-infra: differentiate remote and local tarball filenames (branch yem/download) In-Reply-To: <20141118220357.74bc954c@free-electrons.com> References: <20141116122210.6b3651e0@free-electrons.com> <546BAE62.2020606@mind.be> <20141118220357.74bc954c@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <546BBF25.7020205@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 18/11/14 22:03, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Arnout Vandecappelle, > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:38:58 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > > > I think there are two reasons for the split: > > > > 1. _SOURCE can be dropped if it is -.tar.gz - this would be > > difficult if we only had _SITE. > > True. But on the other hand, the fact that we use > -.tar.gz by default has always confused newcomers a bit, > and with .tar.xz becoming more and more adopted, having .tar.gz as the > default is less obvious than it used to be. > > > 2. _PATH and _EXTRA_DOWNLOAD don't need to specify the full URL. > > Well, yes, but that's specifically the issue I raised: since you don't > specify the full URL, there's no way for the package to download > patches or other stuff from other places than _SITE. I completely agree, just pointing out the (historical) reasons why the split exists. Regards, Arnout > > Thomas > -- 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