From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] RFC: package patching
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:45:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k471n59k.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAXf6LXWc56UcU0s0DBRAVd4SKgB+3P6N49Dc4aGkYFP4oq20Q@mail.gmail.com> (Thomas De Schampheleire's message of "Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:33:38 +0100")
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot@gmail.com> writes:
Hi,
Thomas> I think we should try and improve this.
Thomas> A first approach could be to simply remove support for
Thomas> foo-1.2.3-something.patch, and require version-specific patches to be
Thomas> in a versioned subdirectory, package/foo/foo-1.2.3. For this, we
Thomas> should remove line 02-04. In this case, common patches are applied
Thomas> first, followed by versioned patches in subdirectories.
Yes, I know - We hit this with E.G. busybox in the past. I would go for
the versioned-patches-in-subdir, as we (luckily) only support multiple
versions for a limited number of packages.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-15 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-15 8:33 [Buildroot] RFC: package patching Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-15 8:45 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2011-11-15 19:14 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2011-11-15 21:28 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-11-16 6:18 ` Sergey Naumov
2011-11-16 6:50 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-16 6:44 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-16 18:03 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-11-17 13:05 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-17 21:23 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2011-11-17 21:42 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-11-18 6:53 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-18 7:05 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-11-18 7:34 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-11-18 9:26 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-18 12:24 ` Michael S. Zick
2011-11-18 19:44 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2011-11-18 19:27 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2011-11-19 9:26 ` Bjørn Forsman
2011-11-19 12:13 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2011-11-18 16:41 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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