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Thomas Petazzoni e15ec4c56b package/pkg-generic: add the concept of extract dependency
Extract dependencies are dependencies that must be ready before the
extract step of a package, i.e for tools that are needed to extract
packages themselves. Current examples of such tools are host-tar,
host-lzip and host-xz.

They are currently handled through DEPENDENCIES_HOST_PREREQ. However,
this mechanism has a number of drawbacks:

 - First and foremost, because host-tar/host-lzip/host-xz are not
   listed in the dependencies of packages, the package infrastructure
   does not know it should rsync them in the context of per-package
   SDK.

 - Second, there is no dependency handling *between* them. I.e, we
   have no mechanism that says host-tar should be built before
   host-lzip, while it is in fact the case: if you need to build
   host-lzip, you need to extract a tarball, so you may need host-tar
   if your system tarball is not capable enough.

For those reasons, it makes sense to add explicit support for "extract
dependencies" in the package infrastructure, through the
<pkg>_EXTRACT_DEPENDENCIES variable. It is unlikely this variable will
ever be used by a package .mk file, but it will be used internally by
the package infrastructure.

[Peter: fix typo in manual]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tested-by: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2018-03-25 17:43:07 +02:00
arch arch: add Atom CPUs as Silvermont Architecture target 2018-01-01 13:05:16 +01:00
board configs/imxsabre: Fix U-Boot parallel build issue 2018-03-24 16:58:10 +01:00
boot uboot: fix build for older uboot source trees 2018-03-12 23:50:17 +01:00
configs configs/freescale_p1025twr: needs host-openssl for the Linux kernel build 2018-03-24 18:31:10 +01:00
docs package/pkg-generic: add the concept of extract dependency 2018-03-25 17:43:07 +02:00
fs fs/cpio/init: preserve arguments 2018-02-26 20:49:40 +01:00
linux linux: bump default to version 4.15.13 2018-03-25 15:42:52 +02:00
package package/pkg-generic: add the concept of extract dependency 2018-03-25 17:43:07 +02:00
support support/dockerfile: install flake8 2018-03-13 22:32:36 +01:00
system systemd: allow to build with uClibc toolchains 2018-02-14 21:31:17 +01:00
toolchain pkg-cmake: install CMake files as part of a package 2018-03-25 17:35:26 +02:00
utils scanpypi: fix code style 2018-03-13 22:32:01 +01:00
.defconfig arch: remove support for sh64 2016-09-08 22:15:15 +02:00
.flake8 .flake8: ignore utils/diffconfig 2018-03-13 22:37:54 +01:00
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.gitlab-ci.yml configs/freescale_t1040d4rdb_defconfig: new board 2018-03-11 22:22:02 +01:00
.gitlab-ci.yml.in gitlab-ci: use new, tagged image 2018-02-05 22:38:30 +01:00
CHANGES Update for 2018.02 2018-03-04 22:28:34 +01:00
Config.in core: drop no-longer used C.UTF-8 locale option 2018-03-04 11:59:16 +01:00
Config.in.legacy linux-headers: drop old unsupported 3.x versions 2018-02-04 00:02:35 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: add exception about patch licensing 2016-02-26 19:50:13 +01:00
DEVELOPERS woff2: new package 2018-03-24 11:47:24 +01:00
Makefile Makefile, skeleton: move the host skeleton logic to host-skeleton package 2018-03-25 17:34:54 +02:00
Makefile.legacy Remove BR2_DEPRECATED 2016-10-15 23:14:45 +02:00
README README: add reference to submitting-patches 2016-02-01 19:16:08 +01:00

Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded
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The documentation can be found in docs/manual. You can generate a text
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