From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] [package/config] Change behaviour of symlink .config
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:18:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110628161807.094016bd@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1309262850-11224-1-git-send-email-benoit.mauduit@openwide.fr>
Le Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:07:29 +0200,
Benoit Mauduit <benoit.mauduit@gmail.com> a ?crit :
> This patch change the bahaviour with .config management.
>
> The default behaviour is modified only if .config is a symbolic link.
> In this case, the target pointed by the link will be overwritten, and
> the old .config is save to .config.old.
>
> This can be useful when we want to save and use the config file
> outside the Buildroot directory.
I am not sure to understand your use case. Isn't using out-of-tree
builds with O= a better solution, if what you want is to have the
config file outside of the Buildroot source directory ?
Regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
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development, consulting, training and support.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-28 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-28 12:07 [Buildroot] [PATCH] [package/config] Change behaviour of symlink .config Benoit Mauduit
2011-06-28 13:51 ` [Buildroot] [PATCHv2] " Benoît Mauduit
2011-06-28 13:51 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH] " Benoît Mauduit
2011-06-28 14:18 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2011-06-28 15:42 ` Benoît Mauduit
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2011-06-28 12:07 Benoit Mauduit
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