[Buildroot] [RFC 1/2] non-versioned packages

Alex Suykov alex.suykov at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 22:52:34 UTC 2015


Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 12:15:17AM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> And yes, I would like to keep being able to have packages without a
> version.Even if  upstream are not playing by the rules, it is perfectly
> legit that we have support for that.

Sorry, bad wording in patch description. Packages with explicitly
set (PKG)_SOURCE are ok, they only get build dir name change:
output/build/initscripts-undefined -> output/build/initscripts and so on.

The change is for packages that lack both _VERSION and _SOURCE.
Current BR behavior is to assign (PKG)_SOURCE = (pkg)-undefined.tar.gz
and try to download that, which I think is never correct.
It's either explicitly-set custom SOURCE, or no sources at all.


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