[Buildroot] [PATCH] pkg-infra: log current message

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 18:59:56 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> > It would then be the responsibility of the user to provide such a
> > script. We could provide a simple script that just do this logging as an
> > example.
> 
> I have another interesting idea about such a script: detect whether a
> package overwrites or otherwise modifies a file already existing in
> staging/ and/or target/ to assess for the sanity of the packaging.

I believe there are cases where we are doing this today, and where it
is valid. Think for example the full-blown versions of some commands
that overwrite the symbolic link installed by Busybox.

> We could also add another sanity-check to look at build issues (eg.
> build-path in RPATH, build-path in scripts...).

Right! However, I don't see why those checks should be in some external
scripts that the user should install. I believe those checks should be
part of the Buildroot core, possibly with a Config.in option to decide
whether a check failure should result to a global build failure or just
a warning (default value would be a warning, a global build failure
could be used in the autobuilders, for example).

Best regards,

Thomas
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