[Buildroot] [PATCH v12 1/1] squeezelite: new package

[Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>]

Hi Thomas,

On 09/25/2015 03:14 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 10:12:58 +0100, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote:
> 
>>>>>>> squeezelite v1.8 Downloading
>>>> Doing shallow clone
>>>> Initialized empty Git repository in
>>>> /br/output/build/.squeezelite-v1.8.tar.gz.pb3XtQ/squeezelite-v1.8/
>>>> remote: Counting objects: 82, done.
>>>> Unpacking objects: 100% (82/82), done.
>>>> warning: Remote branch v1.8 not found in upstream origin, using HEAD instead
>>>> fatal: unable to read tree 668edec073bef579bedf43817f65aee3a592d0ef
>>> Hmm...
>>> I have been working on my cached source, so I did not realize it.
>>> Yes, I can reproduce your problem with real clean buildroot tree.
>>> Maybe something changed https://code.google.com/p/squeezelite repo
>>> since my last fetch.
>>> I'm considering to change SQUEEZELITE_SITE to github repo like:
>>> https://github.com/sixeyed/squeezelite
>>> Does this repo work for you too ?
>>
>> the fact that it works or not is not the problem. The problem is that
>> right now there isn't any official repository for that project, so that
>> repository could disappear tomorrow. And I don't know if the owner of
>> that repository has made any change to the source code or not.
>>
>> Perhaps downloading the tarballs from Google Code and putting them in
>> mirror.buildroot.org would be the best option. I have added Peter and
>> Thomas on CC so they can tell their opinion about this issue.
> 
> What do you want to do this instead of just using the Google Code
> tarballs? Yes, I know Google Code will disappear in the future, but
> right now, it works, and by the time it will be shut down, hopefully
> this project will have found a new hosting.

Because I don't see any tarball in Google Code which contains the
sources. All I see are binary builds:

https://code.google.com/p/squeezelite/downloads/list?can=1&q=

Regards,

Vincent.

> 
> Thomas
>