[Buildroot] Using Kernel git tree tries to extract non extractable file

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:33:43 +0000 (UTC),
Graham <gnewton at peavey-eu.com> a écrit :

> I would have thought that as git provides a source tree "as is" there
> is no need to uncompress.

When you specify the source of a package as a git tree, what Buildroot
keeps inside the dl/ directory is a tarball of the sources, as
generated by 'git archive'. For the corresponding code, see the
DOWNLOAD_GIT macro in package/Makefile.package.in.

> Output :
> linux 2.6.34 Downloading
> Initialized empty Git repository
> in /home/gnewton/buildroot-2012.02/dl/linux- 2.6.34/
> remote: Counting objects: 1901116, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (315962/315962), done.
> remote: Total 1901116 (delta 1568013), reused 1900830 (delta 1567732)
> Receiving objects: 100% (1901116/1901116), 443.51 MiB | 19.29 MiB/s,
> done. Resolving deltas: 100% (1568013/1568013), done.
> fatal: Not a valid object name

Hint: this is the problem. The
BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT_VERSION="2.6.34" you're passing is not a
valid version name: it should be a commit hash, or the name of a tag,
or the name of a branch. This is where your problem is.

However, it is not normal that Buildroot does not abort here on such
error, this should be fixed.

Regards,

Thomas
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