From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Suykov Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:43:57 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC 02/11] per-package .users and .files lists In-Reply-To: <550ED31D.6040902@mind.be> References: <550ED31D.6040902@mind.be> Message-ID: <20150324204357.GA4906@vostro> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 03:35:09PM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > > With this patch, the data is stored outside of make, possibly > > allowing one make invocation per package .mk file in the future. > > So, is there any reason left to move USERS and PERMS to a file? No, none at present, so I'm dropping this idea completely. > It has one big disadvantage: it spreads out the package logic over different > files. We currently only have a separate file for the hashes, and that was > probably a bad idea to begin with (as witnessed by the many version bumps that > forget to update the hash file). Ok, that was for the large part to match current .hash handling. I wonder if it makes sense to move hashes into .mk files then, Arch-style.