improved determinism

README.md

@@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ If you need or want to update these config files, do the following:
 $ ./build.sh --edit
 ```
 
+this triggers the `make menuconfig` applications for linux/kernel/busybox
+
+> NOTE: to save your changes to the repo: run `make savedefconfig` afterwards and commit `buildroot/configs` 
+
 ## method 2 (manually)
 
 ```bash

buildroot-v86/board/v86/post-image.sh

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ echo "Created v86-linux.iso."
 # Prepare license info. Start with Seabios, then buildroot's
 wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreboot/seabios/master/COPYING.LESSER \
     -O ${BASE_DIR}/SeaBIOS_COPYING.LESSER
+
+mkdir ${BASE_DIR}/legal-info || true 
 tar czvf /build/licenses.tar.gz \
     ${BASE_DIR}/SeaBIOS_COPYING.LESSER \
     ${BASE_DIR}/legal-info/buildroot.config \

buildroot-v86/configs/v86_defconfig

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="4.19.172"
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_CUSTOM_CONFIG=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE="$(BR2_EXTERNAL_v86_PATH)/board/v86/linux.config"
+BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_CONFIG="${BR2_EXTERNAL}/configs/busybox.config"
 BR2_PACKAGE_ZIP=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_LUA=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_MICROPYTHON=y
@@ -20,7 +21,11 @@ BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_LIBFUSE3=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_GMP=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_SCREEN=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_ATTR=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_MG=y
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2=y
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_4=y
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_SIZE="9M"
 BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS=y
 BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_ISO9660=y
 BR2_TARGET_SYSLINUX=y

edit.sh

@@ -1,15 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -e
 make BR2_EXTERNAL=/buildroot-v86 v86_defconfig
-mkdir output/legal-info && touch output/legal-info/{host-licenses,licenses,buildroot.config}
 
 make menuconfig
-
-test -d output/build/busybox-1.33.0 || mkdir -p output/build/busybox-1.33.0
-cp /buildroot-v86/.config.busybox output/build/busybox-1.*/.config
 make busybox-menuconfig
-cp output/build/busybox-1.*/.config /buildroot-v86/.config.busybox
-
 make linux-menuconfig
 make savedefconfig
 make linux-savedefconfig