[Buildroot] Buildroot "install" wrapper to preserve file permissions

[Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> How would you like this sort of approach in Buildroot?

 Thomas> Yesterday, I've implemented something that allows each package to add
 Thomas> contents to the device table, so that packages can create additional
 Thomas> device files, or adjust the permissions of the files they install. I
 Thomas> needed this to fix the dbus package, which requires a particular
 Thomas> program to have strict permission and ownership properties.

 Thomas> Basically, each package can do:

 Thomas> define <pkg>_PERMISSION_TABLE
 Thomas> some content exactly similar to a device table fragment
 Thomas> endef

 Thomas> and it will automatically be appended to the device table if the
 Thomas> package is enabled.

 Thomas> Would that match your needs ?

I think Daniel's proposal is to use a custom install program (wrapper),
which would then automatically create those device_table.txt snippets.

I like the idea.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard