[Buildroot] [PATCH V4 2/2] i.MX: Update versions to match latest Freescale release

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Feb 13 22:54:58 UTC 2014


Yann, Eric,

On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 23:52:18 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> > Perhaps we can get them to provide a "--showlicense" in the
> > next release, and change things then.
> 
> If you have your ways inside Freescale, then it might be a good idea,
> yes! Unless they're already reading us. NSA, you there? :-]

On the other hand, our package infrastructure is not able to run a
command to get the license text. It expects to have one file available
in the source tree. (Though this can be worked-around by having a post
extract hook that runs the --showlicense thing and redirects the output
into a file in the source tree).

So the best way would be to simply tell Freescale to stop doing silly
self-extractable executables, and switch to normal tarballs, just like
everyone else does in the Linux world :-)

Thomas
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