[Buildroot] [RFC 1/2] busybox: avoid conflict with other packages

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

Hello,

On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 10:52:42 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> > > Rather than duplicate the optional dependency on Busybox in all the
> > > packages (and as Thomas demonstrated, there are quite a few of them).  
> > 
> > Seems like a good idea to me.  
> 
> For that, we'll need the three-patch series I submitted to Busybox:
>     http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2017-December/086039.html

Absolutely. Hopefully, upstream will give some feedback soon.

> > I don't really like this approach, I find it too brutal.  
> 
> Sorry, I was not advocating for this solution. What I meant was that, to
> simplify things even further we could do that. But I don't think we need
> that.

OK, then we agree :)

> > Since we have the testing logic to validate that no package overwrites
> > files from another package, I think the approach of having explicit
> > dependencies in Busybox is good enough.  
> 
> Once we turn the warniong into a hard error, yes. ;-)

In fact, I'd like to turn this into a hard error fairly soon. Or
perhaps I could do some research in the autobuilder logs to identify
the issues (other than Busybox) so that we try to fix them ahead of
time.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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