From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Andersen Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:56:26 -0700 Subject: [Buildroot] Are skel.tar.gz and target_skeleton folder duplicates ? In-Reply-To: <30f88efd0611130654w598ff5daj8015e3548e2f7b7d@mail.gmail.com> References: <30f88efd0611130654w598ff5daj8015e3548e2f7b7d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20061115065626.GA7600@codepoet.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 03:54:22PM +0100, Benjamin Delagoutte wrote: > Eventually I don't really understand why Buildroot makes use of > two different prebuilt trees. Do someone mind explaining me the > goals of this weird strategy ? We used to use CVS as our revision control system. CVS refused to store and restore empty directories and symlinks. As a result we ended up using a tarball for these items rather than a simple directory full of stuff. But using a tarball proved to be a real pain, since using a tarball to store files which tend to be modified (such as the stuff under /etc for example) is unwieldly at best. So I created the current hybrid approach. Subversion is a much more sane revision control system, so I think we can probably consolidate things now. Fixed. Thanks for bringing this up. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--