From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 10:53:23 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/15] package: show complete URL for external-deps In-Reply-To: <20110917091333.6d80760b@skate> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:13:33 +0200") References: <9a55925fbd5588fb01890a48d15a46b06c93fed4.1314826231.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <87zki3wuhj.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <20110917091333.6d80760b@skate> Message-ID: <87mxe3wnwc.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: >> For all of those the upstream URL isn't really interesting Thomas> Ok. To me this sounds like a strange behaviour for something called Thomas> "external-deps", I would have expected to see the *external* Thomas> dependencies, i.e what I need from the Internet, besides Buildroot, to Thomas> be able to build my system. Well, that's what they show, just the downloaded version of it. It is mainly useful if you use a shared download dir as it will contain a bunch of unrelated stuff. I'm not sure if a show-me-what-make-source-would-do target (E.G. something showing the upstream URLs) would be useful enough to be worth adding. >> - Perhaps we should fix the svn/bzr/git helpers instead? Thomas> What should they show ? The name of the local tarball that has been Thomas> created after the svn checkout / git clone ? Yes. Thomas> And what should we display in the case of a local package (as added by Thomas> this patchset) ? That's a good question - The path to the directory perhaps? -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard