[Buildroot] [PATCH 13/16 v2] core/show-info: report whether a package is overriden

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, All,

On 2021-12-30 21:45 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 14:28:24 +0100
> "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
> > The show-info output can be used in quite some ways, like to assess the
> > validity of the current configuration, like a production build in a CI
> > would do for example. One such assessment would be to ensure that no
> > package is overriden.
[--SNIP--]
> I did not apply this one, because when you set <pkg>_SITE_METHOD =
> local, then <pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR will be assigned, but the package
> isn't really "overridden". It's using locally available source code, as
> part of the package definition itself.
> 
> So I found that advertising this package as "overridden" was not
> semantically correct.

Indeed, I'll see if we can easily discriminate the two, to really report
overriden non-local packages.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> I'm of course ready to discuss this, and see other arguments :)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
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