[Buildroot] [PATCH 06/15] package/pkg-generic.mk: Introduce <PKG>_PER_PACKAGE_TWEAK_HOOKS

[Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:40:20 +0200
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 22:39:09 +0200
> "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Ah, yes, yes, now I see. OK, so here's a suggestion for a commit log:
> > 
> >     package/pkg-generic: add early pre-configure hooks
> > 
> >     Currently, when a package needs to modify files it inherits from its
> >     dependencies, because they contain paths, we can only do that in a
> >     pre- or post-configure hook.
> > 
> >     However, whatever is done as part of those hooks, will be accounted
> >     to the package itself, and thus will trigger file-overwrite detection.
> > 
> >     So, we need a way to be able to actually modify files before we
> >     start monitoring for them.  
> 
> "before we start monitoring changes in those files".
> 
> >     We introduce a new set of hooks that an individual package can set,
> >     or that a package infra can set, and that are called right before
> >     we snapshot the state of target, and host (to which staging belongs),  
> 
> But yes, you've perfectly understood the problem being solved here!
> 

This will be the new commit log.

Herv?

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