[Buildroot] [PATCH 12/13] target/generic: add filesystem overlay option

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 14/10/12 02:39, Danomi Manchego wrote:
> However, we still make use of the custom target skeleton feature.  Basically, we wanted to keep our initial skeleton in
> our project directory with our overlays, rather than hack up the default skeleton that comes with buildroot.  Also, we
> wanted to avoid having to maintain a list of files installed by the default skeleton that then need to be deleted in a
> post-build script.
>
> (The truth is that we use our custom skeleton both as the initial custom skeleton that gets copied during the beginning
> of the process, and as an overlay that gets copied at the end of the process, so that no package-installed scripts
> take precedence over our customized target skeleton files.)
>
> So I still see use, at least for us, for a custom skeleton.  No?

  If you need to remove files from the default skeleton, then there's something
wrong with the default skeleton.  Now I take a second look, indeed there's a lot
in there that is unneeded, e.g. .bash_profile if no bash is installed...

  So I'll un-deprecate the custom skeleton in the next round.

  Regards,
  Arnout

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