[Buildroot] [PATCH] Added local package support.

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Le Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:08:13 +0200,
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> a ?crit :

> >       I'm going to give comments on this patch, even though I'm not
> > sure if I would want to have this feature in buildroot.
> >
> >
> > Why? I think it's very convinient to leave buildroot untouched (and
> > easy to upgrade) and put the system specific packages in a
> > different place.
> 
>   That is currently usually done by (manually) adding a
> packages/<company name>/ directory which contains all the local
> packages, with a manually created Config.in.  So what this patch adds
> is mainly to build Config.in automatically.
> 
> >Anyway, if you don't intend to include the patch please let me know
> >so I won't bother to
> > make corrections.
> 
>   That's why I said immediately that I'm not a big fan of this
> feature.
> 
>   What do the others think?

I am also a bit skeptical, but it's not yet a final and definitive
opinion. Custom packages is one thing, but one also very often need to
put stuff in board/ to keep kernel config, patches and various other
stuff, though it's true nothing prevent you to use $(TOPDIR)/../ to
keep track of all those things.

Thomas
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