Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/edk2-platforms: fix installation

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> writes:

 > There are currently three issues with the installation step:
 >  1. it does not ensure the parent destination directory exists before
 >     copying into it, so if /usr/share has not been created in the
 >     dependency chain of edk2-platforms, the installation fails, which
 >     may very well happen easily as edk2-plaforms has nothing in its
 >     dependency chain (except the toolchain et al.);

 >  2. all our dot-stampfiles and .files-list are also copied, as well as
 >     the Readme, license files, and maintainers file. All of those are
 >     useless on the target (and the .files-list introduce
 >     non-reproduciiblity);

 >  3. of a lesser importance, the construct to install, and specifically
 >     to reinstall, does not match what we usually do in Buildroot
 >     (removal of the directory to copy).

 > We fix all three in one fell swoop:

 >  1. create the destination directory if needed;
 >  2. copy just the directories with the actual platform descriptions

 > Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
 > Cc: Dick Olsson <hi@senzilla.io>
 > Cc: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>

Committed to 2021.08.x, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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