[Buildroot] [PATCH] toolchain package: set version as 'virtual' instead of 'undefined'

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 06/05/14 14:46, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,
>>
>> On Tue, 6 May 2014 14:26:31 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
>>
>>>> Shouldn't we instead migrate these to use the virtual package
>>>> infrastructure, and make this infrastructure define this magic 'virtual'
>>>> version?
>>>
>>> For toolchain and toolchain-buildroot that would be possible, but for
>>> toolchain-external not, right?
>>
>> Right. But toolchain-external is not a virtual package, so setting its
>> version to 'virtual' would anyway be strange, no?
> 
> Not more strange than setting the version to 'undefined' :-D
> 
> Any other string than 'undefined' is fine for me too.
> 
> Btw, for makedevs and mkpasswd, the version is also 'undefined' as the
> source is included in buildroot.
> I was first going to change their version to 'buildroot', but it makes
> the messages a bit strange:
> 
>>>> host-makedevs buildroot Configuring...

MAKEDEVS_VERSION = buildroot-$(BR2_VERSION)

?

 Regards,
 Arnout


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