[Buildroot] [RFC 1/2] busybox: avoid conflict with other packages

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Thu Jan 4 15:20:48 UTC 2018


Thomas, All,

On 2017-12-29 10:55 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 10:52:42 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > > > Rather than duplicate the optional dependency on Busybox in all the
> > > > packages (and as Thomas demonstrated, there are quite a few of them).  
> > > Seems like a good idea to me.  
> > For that, we'll need the three-patch series I submitted to Busybox:
> >     http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2017-December/086039.html
> Absolutely. Hopefully, upstream will give some feedback soon.

Upstream has merged those three patches now, so we can rely on a clean
way to install without clobbering existing utils; we just have to use:
    make install-noclobber

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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