[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/1] package/mfgtools: bump to version 1.3.154

[Jörg Krause]

Hi Gary,

On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 14:53 +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
> Hi Jorg,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:42:49PM +0200, Jörg Krause wrote:
> > The version 0.02 was a pre-release and is dated from Nov 20, 2017.
> > 
> > Meanwhile:
> >  * the repo owner switch to NXPmicro
> >  * latest version is 1.3.154
> >  * the build system is CMake
> >  * the license is BSD-3 only
> >  * update the license hash as the copyright year and the owner has
> >    changed
> >  * drop the readme.txt file as is outdated
> >  * drop patch, which is not needed with the new version
> >  * update dependencies
> > 
> > Note, that mfgtools uses git to define a version string `GIT_VERSION`.
> > It does so even when building from a source tarball (automatically
> > generated by github). The problem is, that git provides the version
> > information of Buildroot and mfgtools uses this version information to
> > do a runtime check to detect outdated command list scripts.
> 
> Actually in latest release, the tarball generated includes a
> .tarball-version file that includes the proper revision.
> It is supported since 1.3.169, which is considered "pre-release" as it
> isn't used in a GA BSP yet, but I think that feature is interesting
> enough to bump the package already.

I've tested latest version 1.3.191 and the hook is not necessary
anymore.

> > We use a hook which the version generation script provides to write the
> > correct version string.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jörg Krause <joerg.krause at embedded.rocks>
> > ---
> > v3:
> >  * bump to latest version 1.3.154
> >  * adapt version string hook to changes done upstream
> >  * add optional host OpenSSL dependency to add support for https
> >    download (introduced in 1.3.102)
> 
> I'm confused I thought we agreed that it'd be best to keep mgftools
> as-is and only create a new "uuu" or "imx-uuu" package not to break
> compatibility with people using the mfgtools v2? [1]
> Has there been a new development in that discussion?

Right, we both agreed on that. I proposed this patch before we agreed.
I didn't removed it from patchwork after that because I was hoping for
further discussion on the subject.

> 
> [1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20200109191020.1282319-2-joerg.krause@embedded.rocks/

Best regards
Jörg Krause