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

[Danomi Manchego]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>wrote:

> 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...
>

Maybe saying that the files "need to be deleted" was too strong.  I didn't
really distinguish between "need to be deleted" versus "files that are
unneeded and potentially confusing to others by their presence".  Anyway,
thanks for agreeing to un-deprecate.

Danomi -



>
>  So I'll un-deprecate the custom skeleton in the next round.
>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
>
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