[Buildroot] [PATCH 10/20] package/skeleton: select it rather than default to y

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Sat Jul 22 21:47:10 UTC 2017



On 18-07-17 19:25, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Our current skeleton is tailored to sysv-like init systems; it is not
> fit for systemd-based systems. So, in upcoming changes, we'll add
> another skeleton for systemd.
> 
> This means we can no longer have the current skeleton default to 'y', or
> it would be enabled also for systemd, which would be incorrect.
> 
> So, we remove the default to 'y' but have it selected by the default
> skeleton choice.
> 
> However, we do not yet have a way to directly build (really, install)
> the custom skeleton, it is built (really, installed) as a dependency of
> the default skeleton. So we must also forcibly select the default
> skeleton when using a custom one.
> 
> Until we have the mean to do only one or the other; i.e. when we have a
                    means

> virtual skeleton.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>

 You're going about it in a pretty complicated way. I think it would have been
simpler to rename skeleton to skeleton-common and introducing the skeleton
virtual package in one commit, and then start splitting them up. However, you've
done it this way now, and it works, so

Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>

 Regards,
 Arnout


> ---
>  package/skeleton/Config.in | 1 -
>  system/Config.in           | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/skeleton/Config.in b/package/skeleton/Config.in
> index d25147bd92..b22ac66b35 100644
> --- a/package/skeleton/Config.in
> +++ b/package/skeleton/Config.in
> @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
>  config BR2_PACKAGE_SKELETON
>  	bool
> -	default y
>  	help
>  	  The basic skeleton for your rootfs.
> diff --git a/system/Config.in b/system/Config.in
> index 5cb921f108..9b42fbbbac 100644
> --- a/system/Config.in
> +++ b/system/Config.in
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ choice
>  config BR2_ROOTFS_SKELETON_DEFAULT
>  	bool "default target skeleton"
>  	depends on !BR2_INIT_NONE
> +	select BR2_PACKAGE_SKELETON
>  	help
>  	  Use default target skeleton
>  
> @@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ comment "default target skeleton needs an init system"
>  
>  config BR2_ROOTFS_SKELETON_CUSTOM
>  	bool "custom target skeleton"
> +	select BR2_PACKAGE_SKELETON
>  	help
>  	  Use custom target skeleton.
>  
> 

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