[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/manual: document filesystems

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Sun Jun 10 21:26:31 UTC 2018



On 10-06-18 10:35, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Carlos, Arnout, All,
> 
> On 2018-06-10 10:12 +0200, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:
>> On 2018-06-09 19:20 -0300, Carlos Santos spake thusly:
> [--SNIP--]
>>> Packages are supposed to install, remove or modify files in the global
>>> $(TARGET_DIR) hierarchy.
> 
> I forgot to say that this will no longer be true when we (eventually)
> introduce the top-level parallel build, because, as Arnout already said,
> each package will install in its own, private copy of TARGET_DIR, not
> only that, but also its private STAGING_DIR and HOST_DIR as well.
> 
> One thing that Arnout suggested, is to (mostly) get rid of TARGET_DIR,
> in favour of a package-prefix FOO_TARGET_DIR (amd similarly for
> filesystems).
> 
> However I still don't think that is a good idea, because that would
> allow packages to easily find and write into another package's
> TARGET_DIR. Using a single TARGET_DIR, instead, will make it harder
> (but not impossible, agreed).

 How does the definition of TARGET_DIR have any influence on how fs/foo/foo.mk
uses ROOTFS_BAR_TARGET_DIR?


> Ditto filesystems.
> 
> So I believe we still want to keep a context-specific TARGET_DIR. It is
> easier to use,

 TARGET_DIR is only marginally easier to use than FOO_TARGET_DIR...


> it is more stable,

 ???

 You actually may have a point here, but I don't understand it.

> we can update it at will

 We can also update the definition of FOO_TARGET_DIR at will.


, and it makes it harder for packages and filesystems to do weird stuff.

 No it doesn't.


 Regards,
 Arnout

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