[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] Download patches for Busybox

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Apr 24 13:54:23 UTC 2013


Dear Peter Korsgaard,

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:09:31 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  Thomas> Hello,
>  Thomas> As recently discussed on the list, here are two patches that
>  Thomas> let the busybox package download its patches, instead of
>  Thomas> storing them in Buildroot's source tree.
> 
> Thanks. There's one big problem with busybox though. Denys tends to
> update the patches without renaming them if more problems are found in
> those applets - So we end up with different results depending on when
> you build.

Yerk, this is ugly.

> Perhaps we can convince him to do otherwise, but until then I would
> prefer to keep it like it is.

Indeed, in this case, we don't have much choice.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com


More information about the buildroot mailing list