[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] use host compressor for rootfs

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Sun Apr 6 07:59:12 UTC 2014


Hi Philippe,

On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 09:48:19AM +0200, Philippe Reynes wrote:
> When the rootfs is compressed with lzma, lzo or xz, we
> use the binary compiled by buildroot. But with gzip
> or bzip, we use the tools of the machine. This serie
> change this behaviour for gzip and bzip2, it add
> a dependancy on host-<compressor> and use it to
> compress the rootfs.

gzip and bzip2 are mandatory dependencies of buildroot 
(http://nightly.buildroot.org/manual.html#requirement-mandatory). These 
packages are shipped by default with virtually all general purpose distros. 
What problem are you trying to fix besides consistency?

baruch

> Philippe Reynes (2):
>   rootfs-gzip: use host-gzip instead of local gzip
>   rootfs-bzip: use host-bzip2 instead of local bzip2
> 
>  fs/common.mk           |    6 ++++--
>  package/bzip2/bzip2.mk |    2 ++
>  package/gzip/gzip.mk   |    3 +++
>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.7.4.4

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