[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/9] fs: cleanups and enhancements (branch yem/fs)

[Yann E. MORIN]

Hello All!

This series introduces some cleaups and enhancements to the filesystem
infrastructure.

Most notably, it gets rid of the post-target rules, i.e. rules defined
by filesystems that were to be executed after the image was generated,
in favour of post-gen hooks.

The reason for getting rid of post-target rules is that they were not
really needed, and the way they were used was dubious when dealing with
top-level parallel builds. Also, the sole user for which those rules
were documented to be useful was not even using the filesystem infra.

The series also introduces the concept of a "landing" area for the
target directory.

This landing area is a copy of the currently-known target/ directory,
copy in which all the target-finalize step and hooks are run, leaving
the original target/ directory to contain only what packages have
installed.

Please read the commit log for the final patch for more on that landing
area.

To be noted: patch 8/9 was the beginning of a bigger plan to rework how
images are generated. However, and quite sadly, that bigger plan is now
evading my recollection. It's sad to get old... ;-] Nevertheless, the
patch by itself still makes sense, so I kept it.


Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.


The following changes since commit 803ed997fb2eca841ffafa047b194cf322f766df:

  flashrom: fix static build (2015-09-30 22:56:41 +0200)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.busybox.net/~ymorin/git/buildroot yem/fs

for you to fetch changes up to a594ac3858ea713de72610ad49566be4e20c176f:

  core: finalise target in its own location (2015-09-30 23:53:09 +0200)

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Yann E. MORIN (9):
      core: sort packages and eliminate duplicates before building
      linux: split overly-long dependency line for readability
      linux: meddle not in the affairs of filesystems, for you are tasty with bacon
      fs/initramfs: cleanup and enhance comments
      fs/ext2: use a post-gen hook rather than a post-target rule
      fs/cpio: use a post-gen hook rather than a post-target rule
      fs/common: get rid of post-target rules
      fs/common: move actions common to all filesystems to their own rule
      core: finalise target in its own location

 Makefile                  | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 fs/common.mk              | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 fs/cpio/cpio.mk           | 11 ++++----
 fs/ext2/ext2.mk           | 10 +++----
 fs/initramfs/initramfs.mk | 22 +++++++++++-----
 linux/linux.mk            |  5 +++-
 6 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

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