[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] core/sdk: fix relative symlinks in generated tarball (branch yem/sdk)

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Andreas, All,

On 2018-12-21 10:46 +0100, Andreas Naumann spake thusly:
> Am 07.12.18 um 19:10 schrieb Yann E. MORIN:
> >This two-patch series is my counter-proposal to Joel's path to try and
> >fix the issue:
> >     https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1009168/
> >
> >The first patch fixes the absolute symlinks, that were so far not
> >accounted for at all. A new helper scripts changes them into relative
> >symlinks.
> >
> >The second patch is the actual fix to the issue Joel's patch was trying
> >to solve. I believe it is a better and simpler solution, although I have
> >to admit the patsubst trickery is not obvious.
> 
> Thank you for these patches as they adress an SDK issue I have just found.
> I have applied them on top of 2018.11 and verified the link ./usr -> ./
> remains as is and is not changed into a dead link to
> ./arm-buildroot-linux-gnueabihf_sdk-buildroot/.
> 
> However, the check for symlinks pointing out of host/ showed to two issues
> originating in install steps of iptables and eudev. Both create links that
> point to system pathes.

Ok, thanks for the report! :-)

> I have locally made POST_STAGING_HOOKS to fix that but that's probably a non
> acceptable hack.

Indeed no, please see my reply to Joel's suggestion instead.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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