[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/dosfstools: introduce sanitation step during install

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Markus" == Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> However, I'm wondering... dosfstools only installs things in /sbin,
 >> /usr/share/man and /usr/share/doc. The latter two get deleted in
 >> target-finalize. Wouldn't it be a lot easier then to manually install the
 >> programs we need to sbin, instead of installing everything and removing what is
 >> not needed?

 > I had that first, actually. But then I was thinking that would
 > duplicate the install logic (or at least a part of it) in the package
 > makefile. It is unlikely, but it could lead to some unexpected
 > dependencies between upstream tar-ball and Buildroot makefile after an
 > update of dosfstools. But maybe that isn't a big problem or there
 > wouldn't be any more of a dependency than with the approach above.

 > I'm open to either approach. Does anybody have any thoughts one way or another?

Manually installing the specific binaries we want seems like the
simplest / clearest option to me.

Care to send a patch doing that? Thanks!

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard