[Buildroot] [RFC] core: Download all package sources
clshotwe at rockwellcollins.com
clshotwe at rockwellcollins.com
Wed Nov 6 23:08:00 UTC 2013
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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