From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:26:41 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] makedevs and symbolic links In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20130206172641.4c042f87@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Aras Vaichas, On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 16:17:26 +0000, Aras Vaichas wrote: > I use Buildroot with my own custom root fs skeleton. My skeleton contains a > few symbolic links that I'd like to move out either into > the BR2_ROOTFS_POST_BUILD_SCRIPT or somewhere else. > > makedevs seemed logical but it doesn't support symbolic link creation. > > Is there a reason for this? > > Would it be useful to add it? >From my point of view, makedevs is here to do the things you can't do without being root: create device nodes and adjust ownership. Symbolic links can be created as non-root in a post-build script for example, so I'm not sure there's really a need to have support for symbolic links in makedevs. Or maybe I'm missing the point? Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com