[Buildroot] [PATCH] Avoid make distclean to remove packages fromrootfs

[Roberto A. Foglietta]

2008/10/28 Hamish Moffatt <hamish at cloud.net.au>:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:11:12PM +0100, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
>> clean remove a lot of things not only the stamps
>>
>> clean: $(TARGETS_CLEAN)
>>       rm -rf $(STAGING_DIR) $(TARGET_DIR) $(IMAGE)
>> $(PROJECT_BUILD_DIR)/.root $(PROJECT_BUILD_DIR)/autotools-stamps
>>
>> a) you want reinstall things in root because they have been corrupted
>> without loosing your customization on scripts/configurations:
>
> You shouldn't edit anything in $(TARGET_DIR) yourself - edit the
> source, then rebuild.

Yes and no.
Yes you are right once I know what I want to do on the source.
No, you are not right if I have to play with rootfs until I decide.


>
> However, there does need to be a way to copy the target_skeleton over
> the root directory again in case you've edited files (startup scripts,
> passwd file, fstab etc). And you might not want to copy this over an
> existing $(TARGET_DIR), because then you might lose changes made
> by packages.
>
> I didn't understand your softclean and rootclean targets though. Here's
> what I have added to my own tree:
>

my 'softclean' is an internal target in order to do 'install' target.

> root-clean:
>        rm -rf $(PROJECT_BUILD_DIR)/.root $(PROJECT_BUILD_DIR)/autotools-stamps $(TARGET_DIR)
>
>

ok, so it seems to me that: install and rootclean could be two
acceptable targets to add.

here you are a newer version of the patch

+	@echo '  rootclean		- delete all rootfs content

+	@echo '  install		- (re)install rootfs but not skeleton if it exists'


Cheers,
-- 
/roberto
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