From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:02:56 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 6/6] apply-patches.sh: use series file to apply patches in proper order In-Reply-To: <20120321132607.20647967@skate> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:26:07 +0100") References: <87k42e5nt8.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1332336387-3434-1-git-send-email-ludovic.desroches@atmel.com> <20120321132607.20647967@skate> Message-ID: <87ehsm3y4f.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: Hi, Thomas> Do we really want to support this use case within apply-patches.sh Thomas> directly? Packages such as argus, cvs, input-tools, mii-diag, Thomas> setserial, sysklogd, sysvinit and thttpd all handle this by adding a Thomas> special xxx_POST_PATCH_HOOK that applies the patches in Thomas> debian/patches/. In other words: Thomas> * The package infrastructure applies the Debian patch, which creates Thomas> the debian/patches/ directory The difference is that the Debian diff with quilt format is no longer distributed as a (compressed) diff, but a tarball extra files, so the current _PATCH handling doesn't really work for that. But like I mentioned earlier, I don't have a problem with us dropping support for this special case as long as we find a solution for packages like liblockfile. For now I applied the patch so liblockfile builds again. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard