From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 09:57:49 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Add notes explaining that SITE_METHOD == local prevents any patches from being applied to the package sources. In-Reply-To: References: <20170207204053.18749-1-grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20170208095749.2ce2c8cf@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 22:46:43 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > When a package source is overridden using the FOO_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR > mechanism, the same is true: no patches are applied automatically, the > overridden srcdir is supposed to be complete and used as-is. Perhaps > the documentation updates could also cover that? Exactly the comment I wanted to make, so yes, definitely agree with you. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com