[Buildroot] Report from the Buildroot Developer Day

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

2011/11/17 Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com>:
> On 17 November 2011 14:57, Thomas De Schampheleire
> <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 02 November 2011 15:03:49 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>>>> On the feature that is often discussed on the Buildroot list, and
>>>> which was on the agenda for this meeting was the general topic of
>>>> "package management". To summarize, the idea would be to add some
>>>> tracking of which Buildroot package installs what files, with the
>>>> goals of :
>>>>
>>>>  * Being able to remove files installed by a package when this package
>>>>    gets unselected from the menuconfig ;
>>>
>>>  I completely agree with the final conclusion that this is almost impossible to
>>> achieve in a simple, consistent and reliable way.  Something that would help a
>>> lot for that purpose, however, is to have a 'make clean-target' target.  This
>>> would wipe $(TARGET_DIR) and remove all .stamp_target_installed files.  The
>>> next build will re-copy the skeleton and reinstall all packages, which should
>>> be sufficient and shouldn't take very long.  clean-staging would also be nice
>>> but is probably a bit more difficult to implement because of the toolchain.
>>
>> Just for the record: I like this idea...
>
> Here is a (old) patch that tries to do that:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.uclibc.buildroot/29333/
>
> I use it in one project and I like it very much. It would be nice if
> mainline Buildroot
> had this functionality.

I propose you resubmit the patch again, but lined up with recent
buildroot. We'll have to see which comments come out of it, but at
least it'll be back on the list.

Thanks,
Thomas