[PATCH v2 6/7] coreutils: Import from packages feed

[Enrico Mioso]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2023, Petr Štetiar wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 10:08:51
> From: Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz>
> To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
> Cc: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth at gmail.com>, Thibaut <hacks at slashdirt.org>,
>     Robert Marko <robimarko at gmail.com>, openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org,
>     Jo-Philipp Wich <jo at mein.io>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] coreutils: Import from packages feed
> 
> Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com> [2023-01-09 11:51:53]:
>
>> For my use, it feels like a simplified form (which only needs to be a
>> stdin/stdout pipeline) would be pretty easy to inline into the
>> caldata/firmware-loader script:
>>
>>   ucode -e 'import { stdin } from "fs"; print(b64dec(stdin.read("all")));'
>
> from my past experience, such oneliners usually endup in a hard to maintain
> copy&pasta mess between targets/scripts, thus my initial idea was to simply
> ship it for the start as target/linux/ipq806x/base-files/usr/bin/b64decode.uc,
> thus allowing following usage:
>
> - base64 -d "$source" > "$target_dir/data"
> + b64decode.uc "$source" > "$target_dir/data"
>
> Once such decoding is needed in other parts/targets, we would simply just move
> the script into target/linux/generic/base-files/usr/bin/b64decode.uc and call
> it a day.

+1

Enrico
>
> Cheers,
>
> Petr
>
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