[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/genext2fs: bump to version 1.5.0

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sun Apr 25 07:44:37 UTC 2021


>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> Because on the target, you can generally simply do an mkfs directly of the
 >> partition, then mount it, then set permissions and/or populate it as needed.
 >> Even the mkfs from busybox is usually sufficient on target.

 >> Of course, Buildroot lives for borderline cases :-). But specifically for the
 >> stable branches, I don't think it's very cost-effective to spend time on making
 >> them work, unless there's a user who does the effort (because they actually need
 >> it).

 > So in case the above is unclear, could you please do a backport of the
 > patch (and verify that it works) and send a patch for the LTS branch
 > (2021.02.x)?

I ended up doing it myself:

https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?h=2021.02.x&id=a4822f31ca985192595cf04246e4d6c1f88f168f

Please verify that it works for you, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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