[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/tzdata: do extract to get the license file
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Sun May 10 17:58:12 UTC 2020
>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
> Back in 2014, about 6 years ago now, in my inifinite wisdom, I
> decided that extracting the tzdata source was not nwcessary for
> the target variant, because we would be installing the files
> generated by the host variant, in commit 7aad5daa5d (package/tzdata:
> only compile the zoneinfo once).
> However, that did not account for the fact that we would eventually
> like to have the licensing information for tzdata, later added in
> 2019, in commit 60889ccdf0 (package/tzdata: bump to version 2019b).
> However, that last comit only added the license file to the host
> variant, without explanations why that was so. It turns out that the
> reason it was not added to the target variant is, probably, that he
> source code for the target variant is not extracted, and thus saving
> the license file fails.
> But we really want the license file for what goes on into the target.
> So, do extract the source code for the target variant, even if only to
> get the license file.
> Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> Cc: Richard Braun <rbraun at sceen.net>
> Cc: Martin Bark <martin at barkynet.com>
> Cc: Christopher McCrory <chrismcc at gmail.com>
Committed to 2020.02.x, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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