From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 19:19:03 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/10] infra: add solution to dump metadata from packages (branch yem/misc) In-Reply-To: <27920e20-8b65-1a38-d82a-edad8b289bce@mind.be> References: <20190411192651.5196cd1c@windsurf.home> <20190411212002.GG2539@scaer> <27920e20-8b65-1a38-d82a-edad8b289bce@mind.be> Message-ID: <20190413171903.GN2539@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Arnout, All, On 2019-04-13 10:00 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly: > On 11/04/2019 23:20, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > >> I'm not at all saying that we shouldn't merge this JSON output, I just > >> wanted to point out the different ways that already exist to extract > >> some package metadata out of Buildroot. > > Well, my idea wuld maybe to actually phase-out those rules, or at least > > base them on this new JSON output. > > > > Heck, even graph-depends could use that instead of the recently > > introduced show-dependency-tree, and this is what I was going to do > > before the release, so that show-dependency-tree never ever gets into > > a release. > > Indeed, I think show-info can replace a lot of our special targets: > show-version, show-*depends, external-deps. I already changed graph-depends to use that instead of show-dependency-graph. That wil be in v2. Also, I have a patch removing show-dependency-graph altogether, since it no longer is useful, and never made it to a release. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 561 099 427 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'