[Buildroot] [RFC] core: Download all package sources

[clshotwe at rockwellcollins.com]

Peter,

Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at gmail.com> wrote on 11/06/2013 04:42:58 PM:

> From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org>
> To: clshotwe at rockwellcollins.com
> Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org>, buildroot at busybox.net, 
> Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> Date: 11/06/2013 04:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [RFC] core: Download all package sources
> Sent by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at gmail.com>
> 
> >>>>> "clshotwe" == clshotwe  <clshotwe at rockwellcollins.com> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  >> I still don't quite get why you want to download the sources of all
>  >> package(-versions) we have in Buildroot. Can you explain in more 
detail?
> 
>  > I do all of my builds behind a very restrictive firewall that does 
not
>  > allow me to download the packages.  I am able to download them from
>  > another computer and serve up the files behind the firewall.  It is
>  > difficult to keep the sources up to date while tracking the Buildroot
>  > mainline. 
> 
> So you have git access but not generic http access? An alternative could
> be to grab the sources from sources.buildroot.net instead (but I only
> update that one every wednesday).
> 
> You can get the needed tarball names using 'make external-deps'.
> 
> -- 
> Bye, Peter Korsgaard

The firewall rules are very difficult to navigate around but we have
ways of getting git access. I could see this feature also being very
helpful for you to grab sources for the sources.buildroot.net.

Thanks,
Clayton

Clayton Shotwell
Software Engineer
clshotwe at rockwellcollins.com
www.rockwellcollins.com 

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