[Buildroot] [PATCH 00/29] SELinux Buildroot Additions

Matthew Weber matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com
Tue Jan 6 13:53:34 UTC 2015


Dear Thomas,

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:34 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Matthew Weber,
>
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 21:37:29 -0600, Matthew Weber wrote:
>
>> > It looks like they have set things up to support backwards
>> > compatibility with separate releases for the different packages,
>> > however I'd rather refactor the patchset to use the new approach.
>>
>> I just noticed that the release script they use is intentionally
>> packaging each folder/package separately, so it does look like that's
>> their current approach (even in a single repo).  I think we still
>> should consolidate it into a single package.  For every disadvantage I
>> can think of for having it as one package, I can see resolving those
>> through a temporary patch or the way the Kconfig exposes what's built.
>
> I disagree: they are still shipping the thing as separate tarballs for
> each component, so we should continue to have separate packages in
> Buildroot.

Ok, that works.  I'll update the rest of the patchset with hash files
and similar cleanup like you've done in the Config.in of the
libselinux/libsemanage/libsepol.  I'd hold off merging until v2.


>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com



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