[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] iqvlinux: bump to version 1.2.0.3

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Feb 14 19:46:55 UTC 2018


Hello,

+Yann in Cc.

On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:37:33 -0200 (BRST), Carlos Santos wrote:
> > From: "Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> > To: "Carlos Santos" <casantos at datacom.ind.br>
> > Cc: "Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>, "Romain Naour" <romain.naour at gmail.com>, "buildroot"
> > <buildroot at buildroot.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 10:38:56 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] iqvlinux: bump to version 1.2.0.3  
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:38:06 -0200 (BRST), Carlos Santos wrote:
> >   
> >> >> In the end, did you get the chance to raise the issue of the tarball
> >> >> name with the upstream developers ?  
> >> > 
> >> > Thanks for reminding me of this issue. I just submitted a ticket:
> >> > 
> >> >    https://sourceforge.net/p/e1000/bugs/589/  
> >> 
> >> No love, so far. :-(  
> > 
> > I pinged on the bug report, just in case, but indeed, there isn't much
> > hope.  
> 
> So we cannot upgrade the package without some hack to like the one in
> 
>     https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/849230/
> 
> It works, but uses $(DL_WRAPPER), which should be opaque to recipes.

Either that, or we add explicit support for this in the package
infrastructure, but it's a bit annoying. Indeed, if you have several
files to download (in <pkg>_SOURCE, <pkg>_EXTRA_DOWNLOADS and
<pkg>_PATCH), specifying what destination file name should be used is a
bit tricky.

Yann, your thoughts ?

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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