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pkg-infra: differentiate remote and local tarball filenames (branch yem/download)

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Cover letter [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/4] pkg-infra: differentiate remote and local tarball filenames (branch yem/download)

Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

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I think there are two reasons for the split:

1. _SOURCE can be dropped if it is <pkg>-<version>.tar.gz - this would be difficult if we only had _SITE.

True. But on the other hand, the fact that we use <pkg>-<version>.tar.gz by default has always confused newcomers a bit, and with .tar.xz becoming more and more adopted, having .tar.gz as the default is less obvious than it used to be.

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2. _PATH and _EXTRA_DOWNLOAD don't need to specify the full URL.

Well, yes, but that's specifically the issue I raised: since you don't specify the full URL, there's no way for the package to download patches or other stuff from other places than <pkg>_SITE.

Thomas

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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
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