[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/2] randconfig, allyesconfig: fix handling of legacy options

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 31/12/14 15:17, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 23:03:10 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 
>> I was going to apply this, and then I tested it, to discover that it
>> then causes the same problem as the one we have with randpackageconfig
>> today: none of the choice options get randomized anymore. So before
>> this patch, if you do "randconfig", you get proper randomization. After
>> this patch, if you do "randconfig", it only generates i386
>> configurations.
>>
>> I admit it's not really an issue introduced by the patch as the issue
>> already exists for randpackageconfig. But it's very annoying :/
> 
> Any comment about this?

 Well, as you explained to me in Dusseldorf, the main reason to use randconfig
is to test against buggy Config.in depends/select chains. If the choices
wouldn't get properly randomized anymore, that would really kill this use case.
So I guess that's a no go.

 Regards,
 Arnout


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