[Buildroot] Buildroot Package Mirror Script

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Oct 22 14:10:48 UTC 2013


Dear Ryan Barnett,

On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:19:12 -0500, Ryan Barnett wrote:

> > Also, I think 'make allyespackageconfig' + 'make source' is inherently
> > broken: we have many Config.in "choice" statements, and depending on
> > the value of the choice, the tarballs to pull will not be the same
> > (packages supporting several versions, X.org big choice on KDrive vs.
> > full modular X.org, etc.), so there is in fact no way to simply pull
> > *all* possible tarballs. "make source" should guarantee you that it
> > downloads all the sources needed for your *current* configuration. But
> > there is no entirely full-proof way to download absolutely all possible
> > tarballs that Buildroot may need.
>  
> Thanks for the information, I was hoping there was some magic that was
> being done for the buildroot mirror that I was missing. I guess we will
> just have to maintain an 'allyespackageconfig' that fixes all of the
> gotchas.

It'd be nice though if you could give details about what those
"gotchas" are, so we can see if they are gotchas that should be fixed,
or inherent limitations of the Buildroot design.

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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