[Buildroot] Add [user at host dir] back to skeleton /etc/profile

Maxime Hadjinlian maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 07:51:21 UTC 2015


On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
wrote:

> On 07-10-15 19:13, David Van Arnem wrote:
> > On 10/07/2015 10:56 AM, David Van Arnem wrote:
> [snip]
> >> I'd be happy to work on putting the changes back in
> >> package/bash/bash_profile.  I've only used default
> >> packages/configurations in Buildroot so I'm not very familiar with
> >> modifying them, and I could use some guidance.  Should I place
> >> bash_profile in package/bash and then have the bash package Makefile
> >> copy it to system/skeleton/etc/profile?  Or is there another way I
> >> should install it?
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >>
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> > Upon more investigation, I have a (hopefully) better idea for how to
> accomplish
> > this. Sticking with the suggestion in the commit message ("If the user
> has a
> > specific needs, it needs to be added in /etc/profile.d/ by a post-build
> > script."), I'm thinking I should create package/bash/bash_profile.sh,
> and in
> > bash.mk set up a section to use $(INSTALL) to install it to
> > $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/profile.d/bash_profile.sh. The skeleton /etc/profile
> sources
> > any *.sh files in /etc/profile.d, so it should hopefully pick it up.
> Does this
> > sound like a viable (and correct wrt best buildroot practices) approach?
>
>  Sounds like a good idea to me!
>
Indeed, that's what this was intented for, go for it.

>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
>
> >
> > Or, I'll just try it and see if it works :)
>
>
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