From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [Question] Downgrade package application.
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 11:22:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161109112214.5838dd7b@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADZ=QZmHuyjuctpfxNLn_up=41HXc_8Y+BtDx+4EScrRda04QA@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 18:04:20 +0800, Yu-Ting Kao wrote:
> I have a patch for new feature on a package, but it works on lower
> version. How can I build lower version in buildroot ? Are there any
> menuconfig I can choose ?
No. For the vast majority of the packages, we only allow building a
single version, as we can't test all combinations of all package
versions.
So if you need a lower version than the one in Buildroot:
1/ Short-term, you can just modify the .mk file, so that it uses
whichever version you need.
2/ Long-term, you should really upgrade to the latest version. If this
latest version is causing issues for you, then work with the
upstream project to fix them. Staying on an older version is
definitely not a good idea.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-09 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-09 10:04 [Buildroot] [Question] Downgrade package application Yu-Ting Kao
2016-11-09 10:22 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2016-11-09 10:54 ` Zoltan Gyarmati
2016-11-10 6:09 ` Yu-Ting Kao
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