[Buildroot] [RFC] package: Redownload HEAD packages every build

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Oct 2 07:13:49 UTC 2013


Dear Ryan Barnett,

On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:54:04 -0500, Ryan Barnett wrote:

> > Buildroot will rsync again the source code, and restart the build at
> > the configuration step, or the build step of the foo package.
> > 
> > Usually, /path/to/foo/sources/ will be the directory where you did your
> > Subversion checkout or Git clone of your "foo" source code.
> 
> Could you add this explanation to buildroot manual since it looks like
> <pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR mechanism is your feature and it is currently
> lacking in documentation in the manual? I too have tried to understand
> how this feature worked and it was a bit unclear.
> 
> The only mention of OVERRIDE_SRCDIR in the documentation is under the
> rebuild and reconfigure commands. Where is says that it that it only
> makes sense to use these features with OVERRIDE_SRCDIR but doesn't
> explain what you just explained above.

Right, I will submit a documentation patch.

Thanks!

Thomas
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