From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:45:11 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] RFC: package patching In-Reply-To: (Thomas De Schampheleire's message of "Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:33:38 +0100") References: Message-ID: <87k471n59k.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 De Schampheleire 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