[Buildroot] svn commit: trunk/buildroot/target/device

[Ulf Samuelsson]

mån 2007-09-17 klockan 11:27 +0200 skrev Bernhard Fischer:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:43:22PM +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> >mån 2007-09-17 klockan 00:55 -0700 skrev aldot at uclibc.org:
> >> Author: aldot
> >> Date: 2007-09-17 00:54:52 -0700 (Mon, 17 Sep 2007)
> >> New Revision: 19862
> >> 
> >> Log:
> >> - Atmel mirrors are only of interrest for atmel
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Modified:
> >>    trunk/buildroot/target/device/Mirrors.in
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> >And making it depending on BR2_ATMEL or similar makes it impossible to 
> >put package support on that ftp site, so don't create any dependency
> >at all.
> 
> This can depend on BR2_TARGET_ATMEL or some at91 config symbol.
> Depending on BR2_arm is wrong since i want to build arm toolchains but
> use upstream sources, not some vendor supplied tarballs.
> 
You asssume that there is never going to be something on the ftp site
which is interesting to x86/ppc etc. users.
That assumption is wrong, so therefore the dependency is wrong

/Ulf

> If we need to mirror certain packages, we can of course do this (as the
> buildroot project), but using random vendor's locked-down ftp server for
> this purpose is not a sensible thing to do, IMO.