[Buildroot] Problem using Linux kernel archive from Gitorious

[Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>]

>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> writes:

Hi,

 >> I think what I will do is create
 >> a davinci patch against a particular version of Linux and tell the
 >> company to store the patch in their own source repository. That
 >> guarantees that they can always get the file and re-recreate the same
 >> same kernel - assuming kernel.org always has a copy of the original
 >> kernel source for a particular version. :)

 Arnout>  To make things reproducible, it is anyway advisable to set up a
 Arnout> BR2_PRIMARY_SITE where the tarballs are kept. It's a bit of a pain to
 Arnout> maintain such a primary site, but it does solve a lot of potential
 Arnout> issues (e.g. the kernel.org website going down :-).

Pain to maintain? You can just add a cronjob doing:

make <blah>_defconfig
make BUILDROOT_DL_DIR=/path/to/primary/mirror source

That's basically how I maintain sources.buildroot.net (I use
allyesconfig instead)

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard