[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] core/br2-external: report better error messages

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Fri May 22 21:40:51 UTC 2020


The error is misleading: it reports that no name was provided,
when in fact the external.desc file is missing.

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>p
---
 support/scripts/br2-external | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/support/scripts/br2-external b/support/scripts/br2-external
index fdea5aa251..ededd2d900 100755
--- a/support/scripts/br2-external
+++ b/support/scripts/br2-external
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ do_validate_one() {
         error "'%s': permission denied\n" "${br2_ext}"
     fi
     if [ ! -f "${br2_ext}/external.desc" ]; then
-        error "'%s': does not have a name (in 'external.desc'). See %s\n" \
+        error "'%s': does not have an 'external.desc'. See %s\n" \
             "${br2_ext}" "${MANUAL_URL}"
     fi
     br2_name="$(sed -r -e '/^name: +(.*)$/!d; s//\1/' "${br2_ext}/external.desc")"
-- 
2.20.1



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