Re: [Ltib] Re: where does one get spec files for newer GPP packages?

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Rob,

That's right, the content (GPP) is on a separate site to the LTIB CVS
sources.  The main reason was that I was unsure how much storage I'd be
able to have on Savannah, given that there was a need for gigabytes of
content.  So the GPP is on a separate bulk storage site.

The un-versioned copy of the spec represents the latest stable common
version.  The other versions are there to allow some BSPs to take
alternate versions using config/platform/xxx/pkg_map files.  This is
discouraged though.

The reasons there's no version number is that this is the spec file that
is chosen by by default (from config/userspace/pkg_map).  This means
that if I want to upgrade a package all I need to do is to bump up the
number in the spec file that doesn't have the version number.  Most of
the time that's all that is done (the old version is not saved out to a
versioned spec file unless some platform is specifically using it).

The reason the older versions of patches/packages are in the GPP is so
that people with old versions of LTIB still have access to the content.
In fact any patch/tarball that has ever been put on the GPP is still
there.

BTW: when I merge out,  I usually make a cross reference of what is
being referenced by the various packages.  The one for the latest merge
out is here: http://www.bitshrine.org/autodocs/bsp_ext_ava.html
This is a quick way of getting an overview of the versions of packages
used in the various spec files.

Regards, Stuart

On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 06:22 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> >   while the GPP contains source and patch files for busybox-1.11.2,
> > where would one get the corresponding spec file?  or are we supposed
> > to whip that up ourselves?
> >
> > rday
> 
>   ok, i think i'm about to answer my own question here.  as i read it,
> packages and patches for LTIB are available at
> http://bitshrine.org/gpp, while spec files can be obtained from the
> LTIB CVS repository.  so having checked out the CVS, i can see the
> busybox spec files:
> 
> ./dist/lfs-5.1/busybox/busybox-1.00.spec
> ./dist/lfs-5.1/busybox/busybox.spec
> ./dist/lfs-5.1/busybox/busybox-1.1.3.spec
> ./dist/lfs-5.1/busybox/busybox-1.6.1.spec
> 
>   and if i look at that unversioned spec file, it turns out to be for
> busybox-1.11.2.  so a couple questions:
> 
> 1) is there a reason that that 1.11.2 BB spec file doesn't have a
> version number in its filename?  not a big deal, i'm just curious as
> its contents clearly show that it's for that version.
> 
> 2) should there be a close correspondence between the packages and
> patches in the GPP, and the spec files in the LTIB repo?  i ask since
> the GPP contains the tarball and a patch file for BB-1.01, but there
> is no spec file for that BB version in the LTIB repo.  not a big deal
> since it's so old that no one should be using it anyway, but it
> strikes me that, if there's no spec file for a specific version of a
> package, that package probably has no need to be in the GPP.  or is
> there something else going on that i'm missing?  thanks.
> 
> rday
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