[Buildroot] Getting package sources from git/svn/bzr
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Thu Jul 1 12:53:13 UTC 2010
>>>>> "Luca" == Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net> writes:
Luca> Hi,
Luca> I'm trying to understand how a buildroot generic (or autotools-based)
Luca> package can download sources from a git repository instead of just
Luca> grabbing a tarball.
Luca> In an old post Peter wrote:
>> See the tremor handling in package/multimedia/libvorbis/libvorbis.mk
>> for an example. You could argue about the usefullness of creating a
>> dated tarball of the checkout or not.
Luca> (http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2009-August/028932.html)
Luca> The odd thing is that tremor does *not* checkout anything: it just
Luca> downloads a tarball which presumably contains the snapshot (see log below).
Luca> I didn't find any other supposedly-working example in the current tree.
Ups, seems like Sven's commit (1dc19c44570031e28ad4) from back in
December broke it - I'll fix.
Luca> So I'd renew the question: is git/svn/bzr repository download actually
Luca> working? I spent a little time in trying, but after a few dirty hacks I
Luca> couldn't produce anything really working.
No, there's no generic support for it.
Luca> Of course a more complete approach would be to have a DOWNLOAD function
Luca> that actually understands git/svn/bzr, but this may be less interesting
Luca> until there are only very few packages using such a feature in mainline
Luca> buildroot.
I've pondered that as well. One of the issues is how to encode the
git/svn/bzr specific parameters in an URL, so we can easily extract it,
and figuring out if a http:// url means something for wget or
svn-over-http or git-over-http.
Luca> Is my view correct?
yes.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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