[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/5] core: drop check-uniq-files
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Sat Oct 26 19:18:55 UTC 2019
>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
> Back a few years ago, when we were starting to think about top-level
> parallel build, we were not sure how to deal with packages that
> installed the same files, so we wanted to catch the situation to assess
> how prevalent that was, before we decided what to do and how to address
> it.
> However, the trend nowadays is that packages will install in a
> per-package target/ (and staging/ and host/), and the final directories
> willi be assembled in a reproducible (alphabetical) order, so if two
> packages install the same file, the last one will win (as is currently
> the case).
> Besides, check-uniq-files reports loads of spurious errors when packages
> get reinstalled (e.g. during development).
> Finally, check-uniq-files is the only script called during the build,
> that is written in python.
> So, get rid of check-uniq-files.
> Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
Committed, thanks.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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