Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Future goals for autotest and virtualization tests

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>]

Before I forget, I'd like to ask you about this:

On 03/08/2012 10:36 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> I'm really not a fan of buildroot. Note that in order to ship binaries,
> full source needs to be provided in order to comply with the GPL. The
> FSF at least states that referring to another website for source that's
> not under your control doesn't satisfy the requirements of the GPL.

About using buildroot, what is up with it, since it is mature and works 
well? You mentioned than providing all the sources is harder than it 
looks like, and I surely think this might be the case.

But in all my naiveness, if the problem is to ship the exact source with 
the images have been built, couldn't I just ask buildroot to fetch all 
the tarball sources (there's a function to perform source download only) 
and add them to the appropriate git branch? Granted, it sounds horribly 
inefficient space wise, but wouldn't it solve the requirements? Anyone 
can uncompress tarballs and see the source there.

I've built the images using the latest release tarballs of each project, 
such as linux, uclibc, busybox and such. I wanted something up to date 
enough (example, linux 3.2.6) but not downright git master HEAD, since 
lots of problems can creep up by doing it.