[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/5] support/scripts/pkg-stats: support generating stats based on configured packages
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Wed Nov 11 11:07:16 UTC 2020
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> writes:
> pkg-stats was initially a Buildroot maintenance oriented tool: it was
> designed to examine all Buildroot packages and provide
> statistics/details about them.
> However, it turns out that a number of details provided by pkg-stats,
> especially CVEs, are relevant also for Buildroot users, who would like
> to check regularly if their specific Buildroot configuration is
> affected by CVEs or not, and possibly check if all packages have
> license information, license files, etc.
> The cve-checker script was recently introduced to provide an output
> relatively similar to pkg-stats, but focused on CVEs only.
> But in fact, its main difference is on the set of packages that we
> consider: pkg-stats considers all packages, while cve-checker uses
> "make show-info" to only consider packages enabled in the current
> configuration.
> So, this commit introduces a -c option to pkg-stats, to tell pkg-stats
> to generate its output based on the list of configured packages. -c is
> mutually exclusive with the -p option (explicit list of packages) and
> -n option (a number of packages, picked randomly).
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
Committed, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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