From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] New <pkg>-update-last-config-fragment target in pkg-kconfig.mk
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 19:35:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180815193528.6fc47d7b@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180815161657.GC2556@scaer>
Hello,
On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 18:16:57 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Indeed, it is not to be considered to be a diff of any of the fragment,
> but of the configuration *as a whole*.
>
> That's why I initially did not write a full diff, but only the delta
> snippet, not the context, because it is a diff, not a patch.
>
> But I think we should instead use the scripts/diffconfig script that is
> in the linux kernel tree, and which outputs looks like:
>
> $ cat config.000
> CONFIG_FOO=y
> $ cat config.001
> CONFIG_FOO is not set
> $ ./scripts/diffconfig config.000 config.001
> FOO y -> n
>
> which IMNSHO is exactly the message we want to convey.
Indeed, this looks very good, and diffconfig is an existing tool.
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-15 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-30 15:51 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/3] Buildroot: Target to update config fragments in kconfig based packages Marcel Patzlaff
2018-07-30 15:51 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] Support script for defconfig comparison Marcel Patzlaff
2018-07-30 15:51 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] Refactoring of pkg-kconfig.mk to increase re-usability Marcel Patzlaff
2018-07-30 15:51 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] New <pkg>-update-last-config-fragment target in pkg-kconfig.mk Marcel Patzlaff
2018-07-30 21:46 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-07-31 7:44 ` [Buildroot] Antwort: " Marcel Patzlaff
2018-07-31 7:53 ` [Buildroot] " Thomas Petazzoni
2018-07-31 8:43 ` [Buildroot] Antwort: " Marcel Patzlaff
2018-07-31 15:49 ` [Buildroot] " Yann E. MORIN
2018-08-14 14:27 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-08-14 15:29 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-08-14 23:20 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-08-15 12:04 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-08-15 16:16 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-08-15 17:35 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2018-08-15 20:29 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-08-15 22:15 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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