[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.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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