[Buildroot] [git commit branch/2020.02.x] core/br2-external: report better error messages

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Wed Jul 15 19:27:38 UTC 2020


commit: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=4bf0794bc3a1cb0bf7d026ccffa3eff41b1adcd7
branch: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/2020.02.x

The error is misleading: it reports that no name was provided,
when in fact the external.desc file is missing.

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>p
Reviewed-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit c62e78a85b7bfb51d3eee1596d56d292b0986c3c)
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
---
 support/scripts/br2-external | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/support/scripts/br2-external b/support/scripts/br2-external
index fdea5aa251..ededd2d900 100755
--- a/support/scripts/br2-external
+++ b/support/scripts/br2-external
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ do_validate_one() {
         error "'%s': permission denied\n" "${br2_ext}"
     fi
     if [ ! -f "${br2_ext}/external.desc" ]; then
-        error "'%s': does not have a name (in 'external.desc'). See %s\n" \
+        error "'%s': does not have an 'external.desc'. See %s\n" \
             "${br2_ext}" "${MANUAL_URL}"
     fi
     br2_name="$(sed -r -e '/^name: +(.*)$/!d; s//\1/' "${br2_ext}/external.desc")"


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