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From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>,
	eeppeliteloop@gmail.com, buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 13/16 v2] core/show-info: report whether a package is overriden
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 18:28:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211231172832.GL3390456@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211230214505.6bff001f@windsurf>

Thomas, All,

On 2021-12-30 21:45 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 14:28:24 +0100
> "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> > The show-info output can be used in quite some ways, like to assess the
> > validity of the current configuration, like a production build in a CI
> > would do for example. One such assessment would be to ensure that no
> > package is overriden.
[--SNIP--]
> I did not apply this one, because when you set <pkg>_SITE_METHOD =
> local, then <pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR will be assigned, but the package
> isn't really "overridden". It's using locally available source code, as
> part of the package definition itself.
> 
> So I found that advertising this package as "overridden" was not
> semantically correct.

Indeed, I'll see if we can easily discriminate the two, to really report
overriden non-local packages.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> I'm of course ready to discuss this, and see other arguments :)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-31 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-13 13:28 [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/16 v2] core: add show-vars, a json-formatted equivalent to printvars (branch yem/show-vars) Yann E. MORIN
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/16 v2] core/show-info: report build_dir relative to CONFIG_DIR Yann E. MORIN
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 02/16 v2] package/kodi-*: run pkg-config at build time, not at parse time Yann E. MORIN
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 03/16 v2] support/dependencies: avoid spurious warning on print-vars Yann E. MORIN
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 04/16 v2] package/infras: do not conditionally set empty variables Yann E. MORIN
2021-12-30 20:43   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 05/16 v2] package/pkg-python: do not " Yann E. MORIN
2021-12-30 20:43   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/16 v2] core/pkg-generic: also list files installed in images/ Yann E. MORIN
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 07/16 v2] Makefile: really comment syntax colouring Yann E. MORIN
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 08/16 v2] core/show-info: 'name' only applies to packages Yann E. MORIN
2021-12-12 22:18   ` Peter Korsgaard
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 09/16 v2] support/utils: make-comma-list does just that, not quoting Yann E. MORIN
2021-12-30 20:43   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/16 v2] support/misc/utils: introduce $(tab)=\t and $(escape)=\x1b Yann E. MORIN
2021-12-30 20:43   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 11/16 v2] package/pkg-utils: introduce helper to properly json-escape a string Yann E. MORIN
2021-12-30 20:43   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 12/16 v2] package/pkg-utils: generate proper JSON strings where they are emitted Yann E. MORIN
2021-12-30 20:43   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 13/16 v2] core/show-info: report whether a package is overriden Yann E. MORIN
2021-12-30 20:45   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2021-12-31 17:28     ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 14/16 v2] core/show-info: also export source and stamp directories in show-info Yann E. MORIN
2021-12-30 20:45   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 15/16 v2] core/show-info: report package build steps and stamp files Yann E. MORIN
2021-12-30 20:46   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2021-12-31 18:03     ` Yann E. MORIN
2021-11-13 13:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 16/16 v2] Makefile: introduce show-vars, a json-formatted equivalent to printvars Yann E. MORIN
2021-12-30 20:47   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2021-12-04 19:12 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/16 v2] core: add show-vars, a json-formatted equivalent to printvars (branch yem/show-vars) Yann E. MORIN

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