From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Is it possible to build rpm with buildroot?
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:18:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tut5oeaz.fsf@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202012012108224311878@bupt.edu.cn>
Hi Beenle Yi,
On Tue, Dec 01 2020, yilu at bupt.edu.cn wrote:
> I got it. Is it possible for me to add something new to buildroot
> source codes to generate binary packages? I am sorry that I am not
> familiar with buildroot and I am trying to test the feasibility to
> build rpm for my OS with the help of buildroot.
I don't think that patches adding rpm generation will be accepted. The
FAQ entry I linked to explains why. In short, binary packages dependency
tracking is complex. Buildroot is not designed for this use case. You
can try alternatives like Yocto or OpenWRT.
baruch
> From: Baruch Siach
> Date: 2020-12-01 20:39
> To: yilu at bupt.edu.cn
> CC: buildroot
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Is it possible to build rpm with buildroot?
> Hi Beenle Yi,
>
> On Tue, Dec 01 2020, yilu at bupt.edu.cn wrote:
>> I am trying to build rpm for a Linux-like operating system, but
>> instead of rootfs, I want to build rpm. Is it possible to build rpm
>> with buildroot? If it is, could you give me some advice?
>
> Short answer: Buildroot does not support generation of binary packages.
>
> For some more details, see the manual FAQ:
>
> https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#faq-no-binary-packages
>
> baruch
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2020-12-01 12:17 [Buildroot] Is it possible to build rpm with buildroot? yilu at bupt.edu.cn
2020-12-01 12:39 ` Baruch Siach
2020-12-01 13:08 ` yilu at bupt.edu.cn
2020-12-01 13:18 ` Baruch Siach [this message]
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