Re: [ptxdist] AT91bootstrap with ptxdist

[Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <guille.rodriguez@gmail.com>]

Hello,

2016-08-25 13:15 GMT+02:00 Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
<guille.rodriguez@gmail.com>:
> Hi Michael,
>
> 2016-08-25 12:54 GMT+02:00 Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>:
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 04:41:52PM +0200, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I am trying to compile AT91bootstrap with ptxdist and I have found the
>>> following minor issues:
>>>
>>> 1. Starting from end of 2014, at91bootstrap releases are no longer
>>> published on ftp://www.at91.com/pub/.. The "official" source now seems
>>> to be the at91bootstrap repo. The ftp site contains versions up to
>>> 3.7.1 (Nov 2014), while the github repo contains versions from 3.7
>>> (Sep 2014) onwards.
>>>
>>> I can just send a patch to update the URL but that would break if
>>> someone wants to use an old at91bootstrap version. How should this be
>>> handled?
>>
>> There can be multiple URLs. PTXdist will try one after the other until one
>> works. So just add another URL.
>
> Didn't know that, thank you.
>
> In this case however there's another complication which is the file suffix.
> For the 'old' ftp url, tar.bz2 is used. For the new one (github) you
> can get .zip or .tar.gz. This means it is not only the URL that
> changes, but also the name of the downloaded file. How can this be
> handled?

Any thoughts on this? How can we handle the case where the suffix may
be different depending on the URL used?

If I understand correctly, @packagename@_SOURCE must be defined with
the current filename for the get and extract stages. But the actual
filename depends on which URL was used. Is there a way to define this
dynamically?

An alternative approach would be to add a new config option to
at91bootstrap2.in, e.g. AT91BOOTSTRAP2_LEGACY -- if set, use the old
ftp URL (which is not being updated anymore). If unset, use the new
github URL. Is this acceptable ?

Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
guille.rodriguez@gmail.com

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