On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Olbrich, Michael
<m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>wrote:

> It really depends on how you want to work with this. If the external
> repositories are integrated often, then add them as git submodules in
> local_src and use "file://$(PTXDIST_WORKSPACE)/local_src/foo/" as URL. If
>

I've not used git submodules before. Can I bind a git submodule to a
specific tag?


> not then create a tag when integrating and use
> git://myhost.de/foo.git;tag=mytag1" as URL and foo-mytag1.tar.bz2 as
> SOURCE
> and update the tag as needed.  This will clone the repository and create a
> tarball for the tag. Note: you cannot follow a branch here! It will just
> use the tarball and ignore any changes to the branch. This is only for
> projects that only provide git tags for releases but no tarballs.
>
>
One issue that I ran across with this is that I have:
PTXCONF_SETUP_PTXMIRROR_ONLY=y
PTXCONF_SETUP_PTXMIRROR="http://opensource/pool/"

Where opensource is an internal server that keeps all tar balls used to
build. I'm paranoid that someday a upstream tar ball won't be available and
would cause a build break if someone tried to build and they didn't have
that tar ball in ${PTXCONF_SETUP_SRCDIR}

But for my purposes, if I wanted to use the git URL in a rule file I'd want
it to use the URL as is. But it rewrites it trying to use
${PTXCONF_SETUP_PTXMIRROR} instead in scripts/lib/ptxd_make_get.sh:295

Is there away to work around this?