[Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 4/6] apply-patches.sh: directories are considered as a collection of patches

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On Thursday 16 February 2012 09:49:53 Ludovic Desroches wrote:
> I mean I don't know which parameters will be passed to apply-patches but I
> worry about having package/foo/ (with some version directories into it) as
> parameter and then explore and apply all the patches contained into this tree.

 I don't think that's an issue, because apply-patches will be called with 
*.patch as a pattern - the version-specific directories will not be called
*.patch.


> I would like to keep it because I was thinking of debian-patches like: a
> structure with several directories where we may find some patches. From the
> top of my head I think it's not the case for debian-patches because patches
> are located at the root level but I presume that we could face this kind of
> patch.

 If you don't have a concrete use case, I would leave this feature out.
Otherwise you don't even know if it does work in practice.  We can always
add the feature again later if it turns out to be required.

 ThomasDS (in CC) has a use case of a tar file containing patches.  Maybe
he has a concrete use case.

 Regards,
 Arnout


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