[Buildroot] [PATCH v3] package/pkg-utils.mk: add dl_dir to show-info output

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 25/09/2019 22:41, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Thomas, Arnout, All,
> 
> On 2019-09-25 22:02 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
>> On Sat,  3 Aug 2019 16:04:33 +0200
>> "Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)" <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> [--SNIP--]
>>> make show-info | jq -r '.[] | ("dl/" + .dl_dir + "/" + .downloads[]?.source)'
> [--SNIP--]
>> I asked on IRC to Yann what was the difference between this and "make
>> external-deps". make external-deps only returns the file name, but not
>> its location inside $(BR2_DL_DIR). Perhaps we should change
>> external-deps, as it is no longer very useful as it is ? But of course
>> that's kind of an API breakage... but moving files into subfolders in
>> $(BR2_DL_DIR) was also kind of an API breakage anyway.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> 
> As much as I like to keep backward compatibility when it makes sense,
> external-deps has been broken for ~18 months now (since we moved
> downloads to sub-directories), and no one complained. It's even been in
> an LTS for 7 months now, and still no complain so far...
> 
> Besides, show-info is a versatile and easily extendable solution to
> extract this kind of information from Buildroot.
> 
> So, what's the point in keeping external-deps?

 Kill it with fire!

 Regards,
 Arnout