On 04/18/2014 12:04 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
On 2014-04-17 21:12, Mathieu Olivari wrote:
This feature is actually quite useful. Obviously it's an opt-in approach
from a package standpoint, but it's pretty useful to swap package
versions as well as pulling components TOT. In that case, working
directly on the GIT tree by enabling that option is sometimes seen as a
more flexible way than having to modify the Makefile to point to the git
tree location.
How is it more flexible? Also, since this applies only to packages that
include this file directly, it would be much better if the package would
simply allow selection between a number of *supported* versions, rather
than just letting the user put in arbitrary values.
I considered the addition of this file a mistake from the very
beginning, we only left it in for SDK collaboration with Lantiq (which
has dried out).
I have never used the version part of this file actually, I use it solely to set
the source path to a local tree. I use this for packages that I develop both
the application, and the packaging, as I find it significantly simpler to do a
"make menuconfig" step in my primary build root, and enter a path, rather than
making sure I have a src-link in my feed to the package, and then modify the
(revision controlled) package makefile as well. Mostly because modifying a
package makefile to not download from version control but to build from some
local existing source requires multiple edits to the package makefile, which I
then need to make sure that I don't commit, even if I had _other_ parts of the
package makefile I did want to commit.
As earlier, if someone can outline an alternative streamlined method of working
on application source directly, I'm happy to hear it, especially if it's
actually documented anywhere. However, failing that, I felt that the removal of
this as "lantiq only" was extremely arbitrary, as it's now rather obviously
getting used by other people too.
Sincerely,
Karl P
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