From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 18:39:21 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Where do I place patches for my local buildroot? In-Reply-To: <0855BDD4CF82174A8BE362DE9F27C3BF01E3FEC82D33@pche-exchange> References: <0855BDD4CF82174A8BE362DE9F27C3BF01E3FEC82D33@pche-exchange> Message-ID: <20130523183921.6682d295@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Morten Kvistgaard, On Thu, 23 May 2013 17:05:03 +0200, Morten Kvistgaard wrote: > I'd like to follow this buildroot concept of "patches". Eg. if I have > a patch for a package, I place it in the package folder. If I have a > patch for my linux kernel, I place it in the folder specified by the > menuconfig. But suppose I have a patch for my Buildroot? Where do I > place that? > > My current buildroot patch is for "packages/Config.in". (I'm adding > some of my local packages and so I need to modify the Config.in.) I > can also imagine other buildroot files, that I want to patch though. > And if I place them as separate "patches" it'll be easier to upgrade > ^^ The general recommendation is to create a git branch, and commit your changes in there. When a new Buildroot version is released, either rebase your branch on top of the new Git tag, or merge the new Git tag into your branch. > Btw, I can see in the maillist that there's supposed to be a "Local > Packages" in the menuconfig? Is this so? I can't seem to find it. > (I'm using buildroot 2013.02.) Can you point the specific e-mail you're referring to? Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com