[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] support/scripts/apply-patches.sh: handle tar and mkdir failures

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed May 25 15:11:45 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Wed, 25 May 2016 14:13:59 +0200, Sébastien Szymanski wrote:
> With several archives in a space-separated list of patches, if one archive
> cannot be untar (i.e because it is not readable), Buildroot keeps going instead
> of aborting. Fix this by checking the tar return code.
> While at it, check if the unpack archive directory creation is successful.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sébastien Szymanski <sebastien.szymanski at armadeus.com>
> ---
>  support/scripts/apply-patches.sh | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks for the patch. One question though: are you actually using the
capability of Buildroot to take a tarball, and apply the patches that
it contains? If so, for what use case?

Thanks,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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