From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 10:00:17 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/10] infra: add solution to dump metadata from packages (branch yem/misc) In-Reply-To: <20190411212002.GG2539@scaer> References: <20190411192651.5196cd1c@windsurf.home> <20190411212002.GG2539@scaer> Message-ID: <27920e20-8b65-1a38-d82a-edad8b289bce@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 11/04/2019 23:20, Yann E. MORIN wrote: >> I'm not at all saying that we shouldn't merge this JSON output, I just >> wanted to point out the different ways that already exist to extract >> some package metadata out of Buildroot. > Well, my idea wuld maybe to actually phase-out those rules, or at least > base them on this new JSON output. > > Heck, even graph-depends could use that instead of the recently > introduced show-dependency-tree, and this is what I was going to do > before the release, so that show-dependency-tree never ever gets into > a release. Indeed, I think show-info can replace a lot of our special targets: show-version, show-*depends, external-deps. Regards, Arnout