[Buildroot] [PATCH] Makefile: Fix overlay overwriting everything
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Thu Feb 11 22:26:41 UTC 2016
>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:
Hi,
>> Solution:
>> Telling rsync to treat symlinked dir on the receiver side as directory
>> allow users to be blissfully ignorant of that problem.
> I'm not so sure of this one... It makes it impossible to override the symlinks
> in the skeleton in the overlay. Say, you want to populate /var/spool with some
> directories so it becomes useable.
> That said, it's probably better in that case to override the skeleton directly,
> so that package installation can pick up the new directory.
> Still, you _are_ breaking a valid use case with this patch.
> What do the others think?
I'm also not really happy about it either. Another potential issue is if
the build machine is so old that rsync doesn't support --keep-dirlinks,
but according to:
https://download.samba.org/pub/unpacked/rsync/OLDNEWS
This was added in 2.6.3 (Sep 2004), so I guess even RHEL5 and similar
should have it.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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