[Buildroot] [PATCH] Makefile: Fix overlay overwriting everything

[Maxime Hadjinlian]

Hi Peter, all

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "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.
So that's not really an issue then, is it ?

What do you think about the idea of doing rsync twice ? That should
solve every use case pretty nicely I think.
>
> --
> Bye, Peter Korsgaard