Re: [PATCH 0 of 1] Linux updates

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at anciens dot enib dot fr>]

BenoÃt, All,

On Wednesday 02 November 2011 13:46:02 BenoÃt THÃBAUDEAU wrote:
> Note that some older tarballs are still missing from kernel.org, especially
> for the longterm revisions.

Indeed, that is an issue.

However, there is nothing we can do in crosstool-NG as of now, due to the
way crosstool-NG expects to get its sources.

In the beginings, crosstool-NG was designed to build _production ready_
toolchains, so it meant using _releases_, not development snapshots.
So use of a git/svn/whatever VCS was not provisioned. As eglibc is only
distributed through the svn repository, a hack was made to shoehorn svn
support in crosstool-NG. I consider this to be a hack for now.

But I can see the point of also using development versions/snapshots for
testign purposes. That's why I'd like to entirely review how crosstool-NG
gets the sources. Alas, it's not that easy as it seems, if we want it to
be done correctly.

So, for the moment, the only way to use the long-term releases with
crosstool-NG is to use git to prepare the tarballs, and put them where
crosstool-NG can find them:

  git archive --prefix=linux-X.Y.Z vX.Y.Z |bzip2 >linux-X.Y.Z.tar.bz2

That's how I prepared some of the tarballs I use here...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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