[Buildroot] customize package: odd copy construction

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 08:17:31 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
>  >> I agree. What about marking it as deprecated for now?
>
>  Thomas> I'm currently using the customize package to add externally
>  Thomas> built packages to a buildroot distribution, so that they are
>  Thomas> not removed upon make clean.  I'd like such a feature to be
>  Thomas> preserved, in one way or another.
>
> So you mean prebuilt binaries, not just custom packages?

Yes, correct.
But, on a second thought, I could use the post_build script combined
with a directory for rootfs_additions for this. The principle is the
same I think.

So, unless I overlooked something, my use case for customize has disappeared...



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