[Buildroot] [PATCH] fs: set packages permissions even with no system device tables

[Yann E. MORIN]

Peter, All,

On 2016-12-14 23:47 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
> 
>  > Currently, when there is no sytem device table (permissions or static
>  > devices) defined, then package permissions are not applied, because they
>  > are guarded by the check on the system device tables being non empty.
> 
>  > Fix that by narrowing the guarding condition.
> 
>  > Note that the dependency on host-makedevs was not conditional; we always
>  > build it even if we don;t need it. Making it conditional is not
>  > possible, because we don't know all the packages permissions by the time
>  > the fs infra is parsed (packages from br2-external are parsed after it).
> 
>  > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
>  > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
>  > Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
> 
> Committed, thanks.
> 
> Out of interest, what is your use case for NOT having any system device
> table?

It's a combo:
  - custom skeleton
  - custom init system
  - running in a chroot
  - /chroot/dev bind-mounted from the real /dev

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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