[Buildroot] [RFC v3 00/30] Add per-package staging feature

[Fabio Porcedda]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> On 06/15/15 11:17, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> [snip]
>> Also, and while this is definitely reaching much further than doing
>> top-level parallel build, I'm wondering if we shouldn't do the
>> Buildroot builds within a well-controlled chroot. This would allow us
>> to control the host environment, and ultimately cache the build results
>> and re-use them across builds. This is clearly not simple, as we need
>> to capture all the dependencies that have been built, their version,
>> their configuration, etc. I have no idea if it is reasonable to do that
>> in Buildroot, or if it is really too complicated to be compatible with
>> the "keep it simple" principle of Buildroot.
>
>  That starts to smell more and more like NixOS... I.e., too complicated for
> buildroot. But if someone proposes a patch and its diffstat looks acceptable,
> the option is of course still open.

Maybe at least initially can be solved using an external script that
prepare the system and launch buildroot inside the chroot.

BR
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Fabio Porcedda