[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.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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