[Buildroot] [PATCH 06/13 v2] core/legal-info: install source archives in their own sub-dir

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Fri Dec 18 22:53:10 UTC 2015


Arnout, All,

On 2015-12-17 00:56 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 13-12-15 19:35, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Currently, we put all source archives side-by-side in the same
> > directory.
> > 
> > Since we're about to also save individual patches that were applied
> > on those sources, we don't want to make that directory a complete
> > mess of unassorted files.
> > 
> > So, we install each source archive in its own sub-directory, where
> > we'll later store the patches too. Store that location in a variable,
> > so it can be re-used later on (to install patches in a future commit).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> > Cc: Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
> > Acked-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
> > Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
> 
> > 
> > ---
> > Changes v1 -> v2:
> >   - perl no longer has a post-legal-info hook  (Thoams, Luca)
> > ---
> >  package/pkg-generic.mk | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/package/pkg-generic.mk b/package/pkg-generic.mk
> > index 784c39c..3b6240a 100644
> > --- a/package/pkg-generic.mk
> > +++ b/package/pkg-generic.mk
> > @@ -491,6 +491,8 @@ endif
> >  
> >  $(2)_REDISTRIBUTE		?= YES
> >  
> > +$(2)_REDIST_SOURCES_DIR = $$(REDIST_SOURCES_DIR_$$(call UPPERCASE,$(4)))/$$($(2)_RAWNAME_VERSION)
> 
>  Not directly related to this patch, but I find this
> $$(REDIST_SOURCES_DIR_$$(call UPPERCASE,$(4))) bit extremely ugly.
> $(LEGAL_INFO_DIR)/$(4)-sources is a lot nicer. Of course, that means we put
> things in target-sources instead of plain sources, but I think that's an
> improvement as well.

I'm not so sure it is better: we do not have the habit of prefixing
target stuff with 'target-'. Only the host stuff we do prefix with
'host-'. Why would we derogate from that rule for legal-info?

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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