[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/screenfetch: Add mawk/gawk dependency, and upstream detection patch.

Nicolas Boichat drinkcat at google.com
Sat Aug 12 01:01:37 UTC 2023


On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 6:27 AM Thomas Petazzoni <
thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 22:18:15 +0200
> Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
>
> > > I had a quick try, and yes, I think busybox's awk is good enough.
> >
> >   We assume that "normal tools" are available in the rootfs and don't
> add
> > explicit selects for them. Normal tools include sed, sort, grep, and
> IMHO also
> > awk. So I don't think there's a need for this at all.
> >
> >   And anyway, the presence of busybox doesn't guarantee at all that awk
> is
> > present, because you can configure it out.
> >
> >   So I'd keep the patch, but not the rest of this commit.
>
> That's a good point indeed.
>

Sounds good, sent a v3 to the list.


>
> Thomas
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