From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>,
Francois Perrad <francois.perrad.86@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/pkg-hare: move cache directory outside of $(HOME)
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:32:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jyncxlxs.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <atefMriQw5K-VNaX@windsurf> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:19:38 +0200")
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 06:43:49PM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>> Do we have reasons to think that this environment variable will only
>> ever be used by hare packages? If not, then we should perhaps rather do
>> it globally / in pkg-generic.mk, similar to E.G. how we set GIT_DIR=. ?
> That is certainly an option. Initially I only saw the problem on
> host-hare, but then I saw that the hare packages themselves can be
> affected as well. The question is of course whether there will be an
> impact on other packages, but if we decide that $HOME should be
> read-only, then it makes sense to divert XDG_CACHE_HOME to
> BUILD_DIR/.cache, and see whether it causes issues for some packages.
> Should I respin a patch in that direction?
I think that would be a good idea, yes.
> Independently from that I believe
> https://patchwork.buildroot.org/project/buildroot/patch/20261020120646.1306735-1-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com/
> can still be a good small refactoring to merge.
Sure, I will apply it now.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-20 12:06 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/pkg-hare: refactor build command Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-20 12:06 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/pkg-hare: move cache directory outside of $(HOME) Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-20 12:55 ` Fiona Klute via buildroot
2026-10-20 13:17 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-20 16:43 ` Peter Korsgaard
2026-10-20 18:03 ` François PERRAD
2026-10-20 18:19 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-20 18:32 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2026-10-20 18:26 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/pkg-hare: refactor build command François PERRAD
2026-10-20 18:34 ` Peter Korsgaard
2026-10-20 18:42 ` Peter Korsgaard
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