Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2025.02.x] uboot: allow building versions >= 2025.10

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

Hello,

Adding Thomas Perale and Titouan Christophe in Cc, as LTS maintainers.

On Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:28:40 +0100
Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com> wrote:

> With upstream commit a239b0b0b6db ("Add symlink from gpl-2.0.txt to
> a COPYING file"), COPYING is now a symlink to Licenses/gpl-2.0.txt,
> causing the install command in UBOOT_COPY_OLD_LICENSE_FILE to fail
> because the source and destination refer to the same file. To avoid
> this, copy the license file only if Licenses/gpl-2.0.txt does not
> already exist.
> 
> Link: https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/128c26f2875dd60ed5fafe25f63b3da11bb79f60
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>

> This change was applied on master as part of commit 128c26f2875d
> ("boot/uboot: bump to version 2025.10"). This commit is only taking the
> line to allow to building a recent U-Boot on stable branches.
> 
> To maintainers: I'm not sure whether I should set the original patch author
> as the author of this patch, or add a Co-developed-by, or something
> else. I'm fine with resending with such changes if they apply.

I think what you did is good enough, as it's not a backport of Dario's
patch, but really extracting a tiny bit of it.

Thanks!

Thomas
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