[Buildroot] Report from the Buildroot Developer Day

Bjørn Forsman bjorn.forsman at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 11:04:58 UTC 2011


2011/11/18 Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com>:
> 2011/11/17 Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com>:
>> On 17 November 2011 14:57, Thomas De Schampheleire
>> <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday 02 November 2011 15:03:49 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>>>>> On the feature that is often discussed on the Buildroot list, and
>>>>> which was on the agenda for this meeting was the general topic of
>>>>> "package management". To summarize, the idea would be to add some
>>>>> tracking of which Buildroot package installs what files, with the
>>>>> goals of :
>>>>>
>>>>>  * Being able to remove files installed by a package when this package
>>>>>    gets unselected from the menuconfig ;
>>>>
>>>>  I completely agree with the final conclusion that this is almost impossible to
>>>> achieve in a simple, consistent and reliable way.  Something that would help a
>>>> lot for that purpose, however, is to have a 'make clean-target' target.  This
>>>> would wipe $(TARGET_DIR) and remove all .stamp_target_installed files.  The
>>>> next build will re-copy the skeleton and reinstall all packages, which should
>>>> be sufficient and shouldn't take very long.  clean-staging would also be nice
>>>> but is probably a bit more difficult to implement because of the toolchain.
>>>
>>> Just for the record: I like this idea...
>>
>> Here is a (old) patch that tries to do that:
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.uclibc.buildroot/29333/
>>
>> I use it in one project and I like it very much. It would be nice if
>> mainline Buildroot
>> had this functionality.
>
> I propose you resubmit the patch again, but lined up with recent
> buildroot. We'll have to see which comments come out of it, but at
> least it'll be back on the list.

Yes.

Thomas P. had some concerns about the patch not handling staging-dir
and I never got around fixing that.

Should I resubmit even if the patch doesn't address the staging-dir issue?

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman


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