[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: Add CIP SLTS easy selection option

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Sat, 4 Mar 2017 15:38:13 +0100, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:

> > Clearly *NOT*. We want Buildroot builds to be reproducible. So if you
> > take a given Buildroot version and configuration, it should *always*
> > provide exactly the same output. So we need to use fixed versions of
> > all the components.  
> 
> Obviously, I know. We could exclude the CIP kernel from the
> reproducibility thing.

There is nothing like "excluding feature <foo>" from the
reproducibility thing.

> This should not happens, or if this happens, there's fault in the CIP
> project. Btw the project doesn't involves only a Linux kernel but all
> the necessary infrastructure to be sure that a new minor release
> doesn't brake everything.

Right, but that's not the point. The point is that a given Buildroot
version+configuration should always build the same thing, period.
That's a very strong principle in Buildroot.

If you want to upgrade your kernel to a newer version, you change your
configuration.

Thomas
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