[LEDE-DEV] replacing files in base system from a package?

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 1 December 2016 at 12:48, Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi at neratec.com> wrote:
> On 12/01/2016 08:28 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> So you still may end up with base-files installed and /etc/banner
>> being different. If you re-install that package, e.g.
>> opkg install base-files*.ipk
>> you'll get banner changed to package's version.
>>
> From how I understand the scripts ('prepare_rootfs' is called before packages are
> installed), a <buildroot dir>/files/etc/banner initially copied into the rootfs
> would be overwritten with base-files/files/etc/banner when base-files*.ipk is
> installed at the image install step. With that, <buildroot dir>/files/etc/banner
> should never make it into a firmware image.
>
> (This is from looking at the include files only, did not test, could be wrong.)

I was testing it multiple times, <buildroot dir>/files/etc/banner
overwrites one from base-files.

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Rafał