[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] smcroute: new package

mlweber1 at rockwellcollins.com mlweber1 at rockwellcollins.com
Mon Dec 16 15:35:10 UTC 2013


Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote on 12/16/2013 
09:25:41 AM:

> From: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com>
> To: mlweber1 at rockwellcollins.com
> Cc: buildroot <buildroot at busybox.net>, Sean Gerhardt 
> <sagerhar at rockwellcollins.com>
> Date: 12/16/2013 09:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] smcroute: new package
> 
> Hi Matt,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:07 PM,  <mlweber1 at rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
> 
> >> >+SMCROUTE_SITE = $(call 
github,troglobit,smcroute,$(SMCROUTE_VERSION))
> >> >+SMCROUTE_SOURCE =
> > troglobit-smcroute-$(SMCROUTE_VERSION)-0-g58388f6.tar.gz
> >>
> >> Why is it needed to specify _SOURCE here? It shouldn't be ..
> > It seems like the releases are labeled in a way that requires this.
> > Without
> > specifying the source archive name, the archive that's requested to be
> > downloaded
> > "smcroute-$(SMCROUTE_VERSION).tar.gz" ends up as the file we noted as 
the
> > SOURCE.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
> When I remove the _SOURCE line, I can still download and extract the
> package normally. The name of the tar file is indeed different, but
> this does not matter. The package infrastructure still correctly
> handles it.
> 
> If you still think this _SOURCE is needed, could you explain in more 
detail?
I'll retest, I couldn't get the package infrastructure to handle the 
change of package name after download.  Good to know that it should
as that's much cleaner then my approach.

Thanks,
Matt



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