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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 09:13:12 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4] Makefile: check rootfs overlays with
 BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR enabled
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Hello,

On Sun,  6 May 2018 18:31:15 -0300, Carlos Santos wrote:

> Fix the problem by adding a step in target-finalize that checks each
> overlay, using the same criteria used in skeleton-custom.mk.
> 
> Add a paragraph to the documentation clarifying that rootfs overlays
> should not contain /bin, /lib or /sbin.

Same comment here: I'm sure plenty of people want to add some stuff to
their filesystem (scripts, etc.) that might need to be in /bin or /sbin
(/lib is less likely).

So I'm not a big fan of this additional constraint, just like I said
for the skeleton case.

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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