Re: [PATCH] bitbake.conf: rework FILESPATH generation.

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 05:27:34PM -0700, Chris Larson wrote:
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> My intent is to create a class to facilitate running make menuconfig
> on your kernel and busybox, and retain those changes.  Today, people
> either go into workdir and customize it there, but those changes are
> lost when you clean the package, or they overwrite files in the
> metadata repository, which can lead to conflicts, and is just all
> around more annoying to work with.  It's better to be able to have per
> build or site wide overrides of those files.

Playing the devils advocate here, conflicts make you go "Oh, I need to
see what happened", or at least should.  But so long as wherever this
gets documented emphasizes that people need to be aware what they're
doing (it's like setting up your own overlay, but not quite as
intensive) and need to keep an eye out when re-syncing with upstream, it
should certainly fix more headaches than it creates.

-- 
Tom Rini