[Buildroot] [RFC v3 00/30] Add per-package staging feature

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 06/15/15 11:17, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
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> Also, and while this is definitely reaching much further than doing
> top-level parallel build, I'm wondering if we shouldn't do the
> Buildroot builds within a well-controlled chroot. This would allow us
> to control the host environment, and ultimately cache the build results
> and re-use them across builds. This is clearly not simple, as we need
> to capture all the dependencies that have been built, their version,
> their configuration, etc. I have no idea if it is reasonable to do that
> in Buildroot, or if it is really too complicated to be compatible with
> the "keep it simple" principle of Buildroot.

 That starts to smell more and more like NixOS... I.e., too complicated for
buildroot. But if someone proposes a patch and its diffstat looks acceptable,
the option is of course still open.

 Regards,
 Arnout


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