[Buildroot] Report from the Buildroot Developer Day

[Bjørn Forsman]

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.

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman