[Buildroot] [PATCH 00/29] SELinux Buildroot Additions

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Jan 6 08:34:06 UTC 2015


Dear Matthew Weber,

On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 21:37:29 -0600, Matthew Weber wrote:

> > It looks like they have set things up to support backwards
> > compatibility with separate releases for the different packages,
> > however I'd rather refactor the patchset to use the new approach.
> 
> I just noticed that the release script they use is intentionally
> packaging each folder/package separately, so it does look like that's
> their current approach (even in a single repo).  I think we still
> should consolidate it into a single package.  For every disadvantage I
> can think of for having it as one package, I can see resolving those
> through a temporary patch or the way the Kconfig exposes what's built.

I disagree: they are still shipping the thing as separate tarballs for
each component, so we should continue to have separate packages in
Buildroot.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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