[Buildroot] [PATCH] support/download/svn: generate reproducible svn archives

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Mon Dec 23 22:19:46 UTC 2019


Hello,

+Alex in Cc. Alex, there's an open2300 question for you below.

On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 23:05:34 +0100
Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> wrote:

>  > In practice, we have only two: fis and open2300. The other packages that
>  > may use svn are those where the user would set the version, so they
>  > would anyway be excluded from the hash check.  
> 
> Talking about those two packages, weren't we going to remove them? They
> are both very old and haven't been updated since they were added.

That's indeed another way. For the "fis" package, I think this is
reasonable, as even the use-case is very obsolete (RedBoot stuff). For
open2300, I'm not sure.

Alex: is open2300 still relevant today? You introduced this package in
Buildroot many years ago.

Thomas
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