From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 09:42:42 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v5 0/3] Add tainting support to buildroot In-Reply-To: <1536186133-9933-1-git-send-email-angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com> References: <1536186133-9933-1-git-send-email-angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20180906094242.7c07b6b3@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 00:22:10 +0200, Angelo Compagnucci wrote: > Packages that need to resolve dependencies internally > and use a package manager would harm the reproducibility > of a build, moreover they escape the legal infrastructure > not giving enough informations on licensing. > > This patch adds a tainting mechanism in the form of a > variable FOO_TAINTS that can be used to signal that > a package harms the reproducibility or licensing under > certain conditions. > > This opens the door to include per language dependency > managers in buildroot. > > Angelo Compagnucci (3): > Makefile: add tainting support > docs/manual: adding infos about tainting > package/nodejs: taint the build on external modules It would be good to include a changelog of what has been changed between the different iterations of your series. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com