From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:05:50 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] linuxconsoletools: new package In-Reply-To: <87a852g8v0.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <201706191656.v5JGuLc9093352@mx1.sonologic.net> <20170619214458.7fe41175@windsurf.home> <87a852g8v0.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20170620150550.7cbbae30@windsurf.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:08:03 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > > Hello, > > On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:55:06 +0200, Koen Martens wrote: > >> Linuxconsoletools contains the inputattach utility > >> to attach legacy serial devices to the Linux kernel > >> input layer and joystick utilities to calibrate and > >> test joysticks and joypads. > >> > >> The buildroot package adds options to build only certain > >> tools. > >> > >> website: http://sf.net/projects/linuxconsole/ > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Koen Martens > > > Thanks, I've applied, after doing a few minor tweaks. See below. > > Sorry for the slow response, I only noticed the patch now. > > We already have (an old version of) this code in the input-tools > package, so the binaries here will conflict with those. > > What is the way forward? Drop the old package and add Config.in.legacy > handling for the old symbols? Thanks for pointing out, I didn't notice there was an overlap with our input-tools package. Our input-tools package references http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/ as the upstream URL, which no longer exists, and fetches a Debian package from 2010 called joystick. All of this is a pretty confusing: Buildroot package name != upstream URL project != Debian package name Since linuxconsoletools provides the three utilities provided by input-tools, has a name matching the upstream project, and uses a more recent version, I would suggest to drop input-tools indeed, and add a Config.in.legacy option that automatically enables linuxconsoletools. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com