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From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] RFC: package patching
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:45:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k471n59k.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAXf6LXWc56UcU0s0DBRAVd4SKgB+3P6N49Dc4aGkYFP4oq20Q@mail.gmail.com> (Thomas De Schampheleire's message of "Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:33:38 +0100")

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

 Thomas> I think we should try and improve this.

 Thomas> A first approach could be to simply remove support for
 Thomas> foo-1.2.3-something.patch, and require version-specific patches to be
 Thomas> in a versioned subdirectory, package/foo/foo-1.2.3. For this, we
 Thomas> should remove line 02-04. In this case, common patches are applied
 Thomas> first, followed by versioned patches in subdirectories.

Yes, I know - We hit this with E.G. busybox in the past. I would go for
the versioned-patches-in-subdir, as we (luckily) only support multiple
versions for a limited number of packages.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-15  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-15  8:33 [Buildroot] RFC: package patching Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-15  8:45 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2011-11-15 19:14   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2011-11-15 21:28     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-11-16  6:18       ` Sergey Naumov
2011-11-16  6:50         ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-16  6:44       ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-16 18:03         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-11-17 13:05           ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-17 21:23             ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2011-11-17 21:42               ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-11-18  6:53                 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-18  7:05                   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-11-18  7:34                     ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-11-18  9:26                       ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2011-11-18 12:24                   ` Michael S. Zick
2011-11-18 19:44                   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2011-11-18 19:27                 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2011-11-19  9:26                   ` Bjørn Forsman
2011-11-19 12:13                     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2011-11-18 16:41             ` Thomas Petazzoni

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