[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/4] package: remove non-conventional prefix/suffix from tarball-fetched packages

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Thu Jun 20 21:27:43 UTC 2019



On 12/06/2019 08:42, Victor Huesca wrote:
> While most projects name their tarball <name>-<version>, where
> <version> is just the version number, some other projects add some
> prefix and/or suffix to their version number.
> 
> In Buildroot, we currently encode the full version (with its
> prefix/suffix) in the <pkg>_VERSION variable. However, that doesn't
> work well to match version numbers with the release-monitoring.org
> website, which filters such prefixes/suffixes.
> 
> This commit therefore removes the prefix/suffix from tarball-fetched
> packages (and the special spidev case, which downloads just one
> file). The name of the files being downloaded does not change.

 spidev is not actually touched by this patch. So I removed that and applied to
master, thanks.

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> Signed-off-by: Victor Huesca <victor.huesca at bootlin.com>


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