[Buildroot] RFC: package patching

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On Tuesday 15 November 2011 08:45:11 Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "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.

 While we're at it, I would also make it policy to not include the version 
number in the patch, except for packages with multiple active versions.  Now, 
when you're upgrading a package, you also have to do a lot of renames of 
patches.

 Note that this fix will require renames of rougly 300 files... 

 Regards,
 Arnout


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