[Buildroot] [PATCH v7 22/22] cpio: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Clayton Shotwell,

On Tue,  2 Jun 2015 08:28:38 -0500, Clayton Shotwell wrote:
> Adding the cpio archive utility for the target and host. Patches have
> been pulled from ArchLinux and Debian to fix CVE issues and compile
> issues.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Clayton Shotwell <clayton.shotwell at rockwellcollins.com>

What is the motivation to have a host variant of cpio? cpio is already
part of the mandatory programs that Buildroot checks for at the
beginning of every build: it must be installed on the host system prior
to running Buildroot.

If the ArchLinux patches apply without any adaptation, have you
considered using:

CPIO_PATCH = \
	https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/cpio-2.11-stdio.in.patch?h=packages/cpio \
	...	

instead ?

> +CPIO_VERSION = 2.11
> +CPIO_SITE = http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio
> +CPIO_LICENSE = GPLv3

It's GNU stuff, so GPLv3+.

Thanks!

Thomas
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