* [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/partclone: new package
@ 2025-07-12 15:30 Matt Silva
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From: Matt Silva @ 2025-07-12 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: buildroot; +Cc: Thomas Petazzoni, Matt Silva
Partclone provides utilities to back up and restore used blocks of a
partition and it is designed for higher compatibility of the file system
by using existing libraries.
Signed-off-by: Matt Silva <dev@matt-silva.com>
---
package/Config.in | 1 +
package/partclone/Config.in | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
package/partclone/partclone.hash | 6 ++
package/partclone/partclone.mk | 106 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 197 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 package/partclone/Config.in
create mode 100644 package/partclone/partclone.hash
create mode 100644 package/partclone/partclone.mk
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 9a841082c6..23436e751f 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ menu "Filesystem and flash utilities"
source "package/nfs-utils/Config.in"
source "package/nilfs-utils/Config.in"
source "package/ntfs-3g/Config.in"
+ source "package/partclone/Config.in"
source "package/sp-oops-extract/Config.in"
source "package/squashfs/Config.in"
source "package/sshfs/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/partclone/Config.in b/package/partclone/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..83ebfa1213
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/partclone/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE
+ bool "partclone"
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL
+ help
+ Partclone provides utilities to backup a partition smartly and
+ it is designed for higher compatibility of the file system by
+ using existing library.
+
+ https://github.com/Thomas-Tsai/partclone
+
+if BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_FAT
+ bool "fat"
+ help
+ Include support for the FAT filesystem
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_EXFAT
+ bool "exfat"
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_EXFATPROGS
+ help
+ Include support for the exFAT filesystem
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_EXT
+ bool "ext"
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_E2FSPROGS
+ help
+ Include support for the ext2/3/4 filesystems
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_NTFS
+ bool "ntfs"
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_NTFS_3G
+ help
+ Include support for the NTFS filesystem
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_XFS
+ bool "xfs"
+ depends on BR2_PACKAGE_XFSPROGS
+ help
+ Include support for the XFS filesystem
+
+comment "xfs support depends on xfsprogs"
+ depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_XFSPROGS
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_BTRFS
+ bool "btrfs"
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_BTRFS_PROGS
+ help
+ Include support for the BTRFS filesystem
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_F2FS
+ bool "f2fs"
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_F2FS_TOOLS
+ help
+ Include support for the F2FS filesystem
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_HFSP
+ bool "hfsp"
+ help
+ Include support for the HFS Plus filesystem
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_FUSE
+ bool "fuse"
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBFUSE
+ help
+ Include FUSE support
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_MINIX
+ bool "minix"
+ help
+ Include support for the Minix filesystem
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_APFS
+ bool "apfs"
+ help
+ Include support for the APFS filesystem
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_NILFS2
+ bool "nilfs2"
+ select BR2_PACKAGE_NILFS_UTILS
+ help
+ Include support for the NILFS2 filesystem
+
+endif
diff --git a/package/partclone/partclone.hash b/package/partclone/partclone.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b73883d3fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/partclone/partclone.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# locally caluclated
+sha256 b7e35a01331a05ec44133f2ec4a097ffb3c005653c0b601279b18dea55ef3b0f partclone-0.3.37.tar.gz
+
+# license files, locally calculated
+sha256 5380427a1d822444a47a742cf47f5fffbe89519da037c1b150a897c968ed355e AUTHORS
+sha256 8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643 COPYING
diff --git a/package/partclone/partclone.mk b/package/partclone/partclone.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..15d3c7b1fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/partclone/partclone.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# partclone
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PARTCLONE_VERSION = 0.3.37
+PARTCLONE_SITE = $(call github,Thomas-Tsai,partclone,$(PARTCLONE_VERSION))
+PARTCLONE_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
+PARTCLONE_LICENSE_FILES = AUTHORS COPYING
+
+PARTCLONE_DEPENDENCIES = openssl
+
+# The following features are not supported as they have dependencies that aren't
+# in buildroot:
+# --enable_reiserfs
+# --enable_reiser4
+# --enable_ufs: there is an existing "ufs-utils" package in buildroot; however,
+# that package is for "Universal Flash Storage" devices, and the
+# package partclone requires is for "Unix File System"
+# --enable_vmfs
+# --enable_jfs
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_FAT),y)
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --enable-fat
+else
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --disable-fat
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_EXFAT),y)
+PARTCLONE_DEPENDENCIES += exfatprogs
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --enable-exfat
+else
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --disable-exfat
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_EXT),y)
+PARTCLONE_DEPENDENCIES += e2fsprogs
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --enable-extfs
+else
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --disable-extfs
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_NTFS),y)
+PARTCLONE_DEPENDENCIES += ntfs-3g
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --enable-ntfs
+else
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --disable-ntfs
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_XFS),y)
+PARTCLONE_DEPENDENCIES += xfsprogs
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --enable-xfs
+else
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --disable-xfs
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_BTRFS),y)
+PARTCLONE_DEPENDENCIES += btrfs-progs
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --enable-btrfs
+else
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --disable-brtfs
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_F2FS),y)
+PARTCLONE_DEPENDENCIES += f2fs-tools
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --enable-f2fs
+else
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --disable-f2fs
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_HFSP),y)
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --enable-hfsp
+else
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --disable-hfsp
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_FUSE),y)
+PARTCLONE_DEPENDENCIES += libfuse
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --enable-fuse
+else
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --disable-fuse
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_MINIX),y)
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --enable-minix
+else
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --disable-minix
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_APFS),y)
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --enable-apfs
+else
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --disable-apfs
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PARTCLONE_NILFS2),y)
+PARTCLONE_DEPENDENCIES += nilfs-utils
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --enable-nilfs2
+else
+PARTCLONE_CONF_OPTS += --disable-nilfs2
+endif
+
+PARTCLONE_AUTORECONF = YES
+
+$(eval $(autotools-package))
--
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* Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/partclone: new package
@ 2026-03-19 10:05 Dowan GULLIENT via buildroot
2026-05-13 0:14 ` Matthew Silva
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dowan GULLIENT via buildroot @ 2026-03-19 10:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: buildroot; +Cc: dev
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Hi Matt,
I have reviewed and tested your patch using the utils/test-pkg script,
built it with make partclone and ran it on qemu.
The package works well on most architectures after the fix, but I found a
few issues that need to be addressed in a v2:
1. Architecture dependency:
The build fails on no-MMU platforms (like ARMv7-M) because partclone
depends on util-linux (libuuid) which requires pthread_atfork, which is
unavailable there.
Please add "depends on BR2_USE_MMU" in Config.in.
2. Missing dependencies:
- In Config.in: You need to select BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX and
- BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_LIBUUID to ensure the uuid.pc pkg-config file
is generated and installed in the staging directory
- In partclone.mk: Add host-pkgconf and util-linux to
PARTCLONE_DEPENDENCIES.
3. Verify the dependency propagation :
Kconfig does not support propagation of dependances, so in config.in you
might have to add "depends on ..." to all the dependencies that require it,
here is few examples but I did not verified all of them :
Complete
" select BR2_PACKAGE_NTFS_3G"
with
" depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
depends on BR2_USE_MMU
depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
select BR2_PACKAGE_NTFS_3G"
and modify
" depends on BR2_PACKAGE_XFSPROGS"
with
" depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LIBURCU_ARCH_SUPPORTS # xfsprogs
depends on BR2_USE_MMU # xfsprogs
depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # xfsprogs
depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP # xfsprogs
depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_5_9 # xfsprogs
select BR2_PACKAGE_XFSPROGS"
That way you will not break the package if you select those features and
the user only have to select one option.
4. Small typo:
In partclone.mk, --disable-brtfs should be --disable-btrfs.
With these changes, the package passes all 6 toolchains in test-pkg.
Once you send a v2, I'll be happy to provide my "Tested-by" tag.
5. Additional details:
There was a few additional details to improve the patch:
- PARTCLONE_AUTORECONF = YES : maybe explain why this option is
mandatory ?
- Verify that the license of the package is correct
- BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL : you probably used the default libopenssl
provider but does it work with wolfSSL, LibreSSL, ... or we have to limit
the usage to libopenssl ?
- You can include “The following features are not supported ...” in the
commit message instead of the makefile
Best regards,
Dowan
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2026-03-19 10:05 Dowan GULLIENT via buildroot
@ 2026-05-13 0:14 ` Matthew Silva
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From: Matthew Silva @ 2026-05-13 0:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dowan GULLIENT, buildroot
Hi Dowan.
Thank you for taking the time to review this, and I appreciate your
patience with my beginner mistakes. Going through to correct the issues
you pointed out has clarified a lot of things for me; I've learned quite
a bit from the experience.
I have addressed all your comments except for number 5. I am
investigating the different ssl providers and then will submit a v2.
A couple quick follow up questions if you don't mind answering:
On Thu Mar 19, 2026 at 6:05 AM EDT, Dowan GULLIENT wrote:
> 1. Architecture dependency:
> The build fails on no-MMU platforms (like ARMv7-M) because partclone
> depends on util-linux (libuuid) which requires pthread_atfork, which is
> unavailable there.
> Please add "depends on BR2_USE_MMU" in Config.in.
It appears that in util-linux/Config.in, neither the base util-linux
Kconfig option, nor the util-linux libuuid Kconfig option specify a
depends on BR2_USE_MMU. Is there something I am missing something here,
or is this a bug with the Config.in for util-linux? If so, I'll happily
send in a patch.
> 3. Verify the dependency propagation :
> Kconfig does not support propagation of dependances, so in config.in you
> might have to add "depends on ..." to all the dependencies that require it,
> here is few examples but I did not verified all of them :
> Complete
> " select BR2_PACKAGE_NTFS_3G"
> with
> " depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
> depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
> depends on BR2_USE_MMU
> depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
> select BR2_PACKAGE_NTFS_3G"
>
> and modify
> " depends on BR2_PACKAGE_XFSPROGS"
> with
> " depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LIBURCU_ARCH_SUPPORTS # xfsprogs
> depends on BR2_USE_MMU # xfsprogs
> depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # xfsprogs
> depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP # xfsprogs
> depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_5_9 # xfsprogs
> select BR2_PACKAGE_XFSPROGS"
>
> That way you will not break the package if you select those features and
> the user only have to select one option.
Is there a reason you didn't mark the NTFS_3G depends with comments like
you did in the XFSPROGS? Right now in my adjustments I have included the
comments for both.
Additionally, I've added Kconfig comments indicating the toolchain
dependencies as mentioned in the docs.
> With these changes, the package passes all 6 toolchains in test-pkg.
> Once you send a v2, I'll be happy to provide my "Tested-by" tag.
I'm curious as to how this works. I see that it is appended to the
commit message. Is this something added by me, you, or the maintainer
who accepts the patch?
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