Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] initramfs-tools: Restore package

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 08:11:24AM -0400, Jon Ringle wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 3:00 AM Michael Olbrich
> <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 10:27:46PM -0400, Jon Ringle wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:45 AM Michael Olbrich
> > > <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 08:09:20AM -0400, jon@ringle.org wrote:
> > > > > +if INITRAMFS_TOOLS
> > > > > +
> > > > > +config INITRAMFS_SPEC
> > > >
> > > > Is this spec stuff something you need? I actually missed this when I
> > > > removed all the other pieces, so I'd like to remove this as well.
> > > >
> > > > This seems to be just a indirection to install files. I'd prefer normal
> > > > packages for this.
> > >
> > > I can remove it. However, could we keep the $(call install_spec ...)
> > > macro intact so that at least I can create a rule file in my local
> > > project that can use this:?
> >
> > What can you do with install_spec that cannot be handled with install_copy
> > etc.?
> 
> Everything that install_spec does can be handled with install_copy,
> install_link and install_node.
> However, this is more of a preference in how I want to handle
> maintenance and installing of some project specific files that don't
> fit nicely into any specific package.

Ok, I'll leave it for now.

Michael

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