[Buildroot] [PATCH] [package/config] Change behaviour of symlink .config

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:07:29 +0200,
Benoit Mauduit <benoit.mauduit at gmail.com> a écrit :

> This patch change the bahaviour with .config management.
> 
> The default behaviour is modified only if .config is a symbolic link.
> In this case, the target pointed by the link will be overwritten, and
> the old .config is save to .config.old.
> 
> This can be useful when we want to save and use the config file
> outside the Buildroot directory.

I am not sure to understand your use case. Isn't using out-of-tree
builds with O= a better solution, if what you want is to have the
config file outside of the Buildroot source directory ?

Regards,

Thomas
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