From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:36:15 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Buildroot] Where does post-build script belong? References: <4F435977.1060001@lucaceresoli.net> <201202282038.54757.arnout@mind.be> <4F4D4751.1030906@gmail.com> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 2012-02-28, Steve Calfee wrote: > On 02/28/2012 01:06 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2012-02-28, Arnout Vandecappelle 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. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! A can of ASPARAGUS, at 73 pigeons, some LIVE ammo, gmail.com and a FROZEN DAQUIRI!!