[Buildroot] [PATCH] socat: bump down to version 1.7.3.2

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Mon Oct 30 05:04:52 UTC 2017


Hi Thomas,

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 06:15:44PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 16:33:49 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > Upstream socat2 branch seems to be dead. Last commit is from January
> > 2016 . Over the last few years socat2 received only fixes cherry picked
> > from the master 1.x branch. Most major general purpose distros only
> > package socat 1.x.
> > 
> > Drop the threads dependency; not needed for 1.x.
> > 
> > Mention the OpenSSL exception in the license. Add hashes for license
> > files.
> > 
> > Correct the autoconf comment. The tarball configure script is recent
> > enough. But since we patch configure.in and Makefile.in we still need to
> > autoconf.
> > 
> > All patches we carry for socat2 are also needed for socat 1.x.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
> > ---
> >  package/socat/Config.in  |  5 -----
> >  package/socat/socat.hash |  8 ++++++--
> >  package/socat/socat.mk   | 13 ++++++-------
> >  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> Applied to master, thanks. Are you using socat? If so, could you list
> yourself in the DEVELOPERS file for this package?

I only used Buildroot to generate a static socat binary. This is quite 
convenient which you deal with rootfs that you can't build.

I generally monitor the autobuilder for packages I touch. But I don't mind 
being listed in DEVELOPERS as well. I'll send a patch.

baruch

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