[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] uboot-envtools: Change download to git.

Rosen Penev rosenp at gmail.com
Fri Feb 23 08:09:56 PST 2018


On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 4:03 AM, Michael Heimpold <mhei at heimpold.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2018, 17:48:58 CET schrieb Rosen Penev:
>> Currently, the build system uses an openwrt mirror which does not currently workand FTP can be unreliable under several circumstances (Ubuntu 16.04 WSL being an example). This change implicitly allows using all the mirrors to download.
>>
>> Changing this to git also allows using .tar.xz archives which are smaller.
>>
>> Size difference:
>>
>> 10416503 u-boot-2015.10.tar.bz2
>> 8351456 u-boot-2015.10.tar.xz
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  package/boot/uboot-envtools/Makefile | 13 +++++++------
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/package/boot/uboot-envtools/Makefile b/package/boot/uboot-envtools/Makefile
>> index 57a2ec5393..4d2cd342aa 100644
>> --- a/package/boot/uboot-envtools/Makefile
>> +++ b/package/boot/uboot-envtools/Makefile
>> @@ -12,12 +12,13 @@ PKG_DISTNAME:=u-boot
>>  PKG_VERSION:=2015.10
>>  PKG_RELEASE:=1
>>
>> -PKG_BUILD_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/u-boot-$(PKG_VERSION)
>> -PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_DISTNAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
>> -PKG_SOURCE_URL:=\
>> -     http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources \
>> -     ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot
>> -PKG_HASH:=bdc68d5f9455ad933b059c735d983f2c8b6b552dafb062e5ff1444f623021955
>> +PKG_SOURCE_PROTO:=git
>> +PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_DISTNAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
>> +PKG_SOURCE_SUBDIR:=$(PKG_DISTNAME)-$(PKG_VERSION)
>> +PKG_BUILD_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/$(PKG_DISTNAME)-$(PKG_VERSION)
>> +PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot
>
> I would like to NAK this. This URL seems be a repo of an arbitrary person, I don't see
> how this is related to the original project as it is not listed anywhere on the Denx wiki or so.
> I also found this (old) mail - don't know whether opinions changed meanswhile:
> https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-March/049148.html
>
Hrm I thought this was official. I'll switch to the official uboot
repo in a few hours.

> Personally, I would prefer to fix the openwrt download mirror. Addtionally, we could
> check, whether it's possible to use the "offical" Amazon drive
> (https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/HtTEzbceyJDyHv7anDLboEjTe0OkFbYReMxRp3CF20n?ref_=cd_ph_share_link_copy)
> mentioned here: https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/SourceCode
Some people (Google being a major one) are uncomfortable with using
plain HTTP. The official website has a totally broken HTTPS setup. The
official git repo may be cloneable through SSH so there is that.
>
> Regards,
> mhei
>
>> +PKG_SOURCE_VERSION:=5ec0003b19cbdf06ccd6941237cbc0d1c3468e2d
>> +PKG_MIRROR_HASH:=e207d996ebfff7335eed99789e3dcb9da071499f347fcdd86725b9d4dac5a5bb
>>
>>  PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS:=fstools
>>
>>
>



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