[Buildroot] [git commit branch/next] package/util-linux: build programs and libraries in separate packages

Carlos Santos unixmania at gmail.com
Thu Aug 22 22:25:53 UTC 2019


On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 8:47 AM Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
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> On 22/08/2019 12:57, Carlos Santos wrote:
> > Arnout,
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 6:41 PM Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> >>
> >> commit: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=335c77b667c68975b65edd0ac0d6ec214a9cb1c6
> >> branch: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/next
> >>
> >> The findmount and lsblk utilities need udev to work correctly but cannot
> >> be built with udev support because the packages providing libudev (eudev
> >> and systemd) depend on util-linux, creating a chicken-egg problem. Solve
> >> it by means of the following changes:
> >
> > Thank you for taking care of this. I have been very busy these days
> > and was unable to pay attention to Buildroot.
>
>  Argh, no, I *didn't* take care of it! This was pushed accidentally...
>
>  Apparently my script that should warn me about such a situation doesn't work
> that well :-(.
>
>
>  Peter, Thomas, how should we handle this? The patch is OK as is (though TBH I
> didn't test it that carefully), however I think there is a better way that needs
> only a single additional package instead of two.
>
>  So we can either revert and re-apply later, or we can keep it as is and fix it
> up. In the latter case, we have to do the fix relatively quickly, because the
> util-linux-programs package would be removed again...
>
>  Maybe I should by the bullet and do some actual Buildroot development this
> evening :-)
>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout

It's on the next branch only. Can't you simpli skip the commit when
you rebase on master after releasing Buildroot 2019.08?

-- 
Carlos Santos <unixmania at gmail.com>


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