[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] qt5webkit: Get sources from Qt-5-unofficial-builds

Alexey Brodkin Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com
Wed Nov 16 08:14:29 UTC 2016


Hi Andreas,

On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 08:53 +0100, Andreas Naumann wrote:
> Am 15.11.2016 um 22:20 schrieb Arnout Vandecappelle:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 15-11-16 15:07, Julien CORJON wrote:
> > > 
> > > Alexey,
> > > 
> > > I like the idea of fetching obsolete submodules from Qt hosting instead
> > > of external github. But, as url say it's snapshot, we will probably have
> > > to change hash file more often... Maybe we will have to get rid of hash
> > > files for theses obsolete submodules.
> > 
> >  Since the tarballs are actual versioned tarballs, I do hope that they don't
> > just change randomly...
> 
> So my experience was that the tarballs in 
> 5.8.0-beta/latest_src/submodules did actually change until it was 
> properly released. That was the reason i removed the hashes in my bump 
> series (after having refreshed them initially).
> I guess the .../<number>/submodule snapshots are probably more constant 
> during the development phase, but I have no objection to leave the patch 
> as is.

Not really sure. In "numbered" folders I only see pre-built stuff like:
.exe and .dmg

So from what I may see the only source of sources is
5.8/5.8.0-beta/latest_src/.

-Alexey


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