Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/casync-nano: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello Florian,

On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 23:32:05 +0200
Florian Larysch <fl@n621.de> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 11:13:07PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot wrote:
> > > +config BR2_PACKAGE_CASYNC_NANO_CASYNC_SHIM  
> > I am wondering if we really need this option. What about simply
> > installing this shim automatically if BR2_PACKAGE_CASYNC is disabled?  
> 
> That would be an option too. Personally I'd err on the side of not
> cluttering /usr/bin unnecessarily, but if you think that makes more
> sense I can change it.

OK, fair enough!

> > Why aren't those same options set for the target variant? I'm not quite
> > sure to understand why the host and target variant don't have the same
> > dependencies. If zstd and libcurl are optional, then they should also
> > be optional for the target variant.  
> 
> The host variant of the package is only building a different sub-program
> (csn-tool), which has different dependencies (namely it only needs
> libcrypto from OpenSSL).
> 
> The reasoning for the split here is similar to other OTA tools like RAUC
> where there is one component that is only really useful on the target
> for installing the update and another component that is only useful on
> the host for generating/manipulating that update.

Makes sense, thanks for the explanation!

Thomas
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