[Buildroot] Are these packages already present or easy to add?

[Oli Vogt]

Dear Thomas.

Thank you for taking the time to explain.

Regards, oli

On 29 May 2015 at 19:03, Thomas Petazzoni <
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Dear Oli Vogt,
>
> On Fri, 29 May 2015 10:48:58 +1200, Oli Vogt wrote:
>
> > There is a patch for python-smbus and as far as I know it is not
> committed
> > yet. <
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-March/122280.html>
> >
> > I'm to busy to test it myself. All I have done is compile it
> successfully.
>
> The patch you're pointing to is no longer needed. As Arnout said,
> python-smbus is installed by the i2c-tools package, but the source code
> of python-smbus is in i2c-tools.
>
> The issue with the patch you're pointing to is that it was sharing
> variables between python-smbus.mk and i2c-tools.mk, which is not
> correct (relies on the assumption that i2c-tools.mk gets included
> before python-smbus.mk, which is true because alphabetically they are
> ordered properly, but the same strategy wouldn't work in the opposite
> way).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
>
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