[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/4] pkg-infra: differentiate remote and local tarball filenames (branch yem/download)

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:38:58 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>  I think there are two reasons for the split:
> 
> 1. _SOURCE can be dropped if it is <pkg>-<version>.tar.gz - this would be
> difficult if we only had _SITE.

True. But on the other hand, the fact that we use
<pkg>-<version>.tar.gz by default has always confused newcomers a bit,
and with .tar.xz becoming more and more adopted, having .tar.gz as the
default is less obvious than it used to be.

> 2. _PATH and _EXTRA_DOWNLOAD don't need to specify the full URL.

Well, yes, but that's specifically the issue I raised: since you don't
specify the full URL, there's no way for the package to download
patches or other stuff from other places than <pkg>_SITE.

Thomas
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