Commit afea3037 authored by Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)'s avatar Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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rootfs-overlay: also exclude .empty files 



This makes it possible to put empty directories in the overlay.
Thanks to Aras Vaichas for pointing that out.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: default avatarSamuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
parent c482eed7

Makefile

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@@ -506,7 +506,8 @@ endif 
	@for dir in $(call qstrip,$(BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY)); do \

		$(call MESSAGE,"Copying overlay $${dir}"); \

		rsync -a \

			--exclude .svn --exclude .git --exclude .hg --exclude '*~' \

			--exclude .empty --exclude .svn --exclude .git \

			--exclude .hg --exclude '*~' \

			$${dir}/ $(TARGET_DIR); \

	done

docs/manual/customize-rootfs.txt

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@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ there are a few ways to customize the resulting target filesystem. 


* Create a filesystem overlay: a tree of files that are copied directly

  over the target filesystem after it has been built.  Set

  +BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY+ to the top of the tree.  +.git+, +.svn+,

  +.hg+ directories and files ending with +~+ are excluded.

  +BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY+ to the top of the tree.  +.git+, +.svn+, +.hg+

  directories, +.empty+ files and files ending with +~+ are excluded.

  _Among these first 3 methods, this one should be preferred_.



* In the Buildroot configuration, you can specify the path to a