[Buildroot] Where does post-build script belong?

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2012-02-28, Steve Calfee <stevecalfee@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/28/2012 01:06 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2012-02-28, Arnout Vandecappelle<arnout@mind.be>  wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 21 February 2012 14:54:47 Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>> I don't want to replace the default skeleton.  I want to add some
>>>> files to it, and possible modify a few.  The documentation describes
>>>> two ways to do that:
>>>>
>>>>    1) package/customize
>>>>
>>>>    2) post-build script
>>>>
>>>> I'm told 1) is now depricated, so I'm switching to 2).
>>>>
>>>> Where under board/mycompany/myproduct do you put "extra" files that
>>>> will be added to the standard skeleton?
>>> I put it in board/mycompany/myproduct/skeleton.  Although
>>> rootfs-additions would be a better name than skeleton.
>> Ah, perhaps I've misunderstood what a custom skeleton was for the past
>> several years.  I thought it was the basis for the filesystem.  Is the
>> custom skeleton something that's _added_ on top of the default
>> skeleton rather than used in place of it?
>>
> Perhaps, but it is your script. If you want to completely replace the 
> existing skeleton you can, but I think it makes more sense to just 
> overlay new stuff on top of the default skeleton.

I seem to be completely lost.  Is board/mycompany/myproduct/skeleton
above a post-build script or a custom skelecton (something you set
BR2_ROOTFS_SKELETON_CUSTOM_PATH to point to)?

> This makes your new skeleton much smaller, and since it is run after
> every build, you don't have to wonder if changes make it to the
> target filesystem, it always does.

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