[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Add support to set the default port for dropbear to listen on

[Yann E. MORIN]

Jeroen, All,

On 2013-11-22 21:17 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 22/11/13 19:10, jeroen.de.wachter at telenet.be wrote:
> >A menu entry has been added to set the port. This menu entry
> >is processed like entries that were already present and will
> >rewrite one line of the options.h file that is used by
> >dropbear during compilation.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Jeroen De Wachter<jeroen.de_wachter at alcatel-lucent.com>
> 
>  Hi Jeroen,
> 
>  Thank you for your patch. However, I don't think we will accept it in
> buildroot. We could make thousands of configuration options that deal with
> all possible fine-grained tweaking. And especially in this particular case,
> the option is quite invasive (requires 5 additional lines in the .mk file)
> and it is possible to achieve the same result by adding a command-line
> option to dropbear, by including a custom S50dropbear to your fs-overlay.

Agreed. We've already declined to apply such changes in the past, on the
ground that this kind of run-time configuration should be delegated to
either one of:
  - a post-build script (BR2_ROOTFS_POST_BUILD_SCRIPT)
  - a rootfs-overlay (BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY)

The basic idea is that Buildroot should install default, sane config
files in /etc, and startup scripts, that provide the standard behaviour
of the package (when that makes sense), and that further project-specific
customisation is out-of-scope for Buildroot (but Buildroot offers the
rootfs-overlay and post-{build,image} scripts for that).

Also, I do not like the way this change tweaks the code between the
extract and patch steps. If that was to be accepted at all, then this
should be done with a real patch file, not a sed expression.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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