[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/7] package/pmake: add host pmake
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Wed Jan 30 23:20:22 UTC 2013
Arnout, All,
On Wednesday 30 January 2013 Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 30/01/13 23:43, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > What happens (eek! apply-patches.sh is hard to read) is that, if a patch
> > is neamd like a tarball, it is extracted in a temp dir, and that temp dir
> > is scanned as if it was passed as arg to apply-patches.sh:
>
> It's scanned recursively, even.
> And it uses the series file, if present.
Yes.
> > So, yes, it works. Yet, I still find it a bit ugly (but less so than I
> > initially suspected). And it is not documented.
> > Should this be considered a feature? Can we rely on it?
> > If so, then I'll update the doc accordingly.
>
> I seem to remember that support for tar and a series file was added for
> exactly this purpose.
It was part of the 'extensa directory overlay' support:
ebb049593653f51475ca255445058a70a373fb62
> In terms of ugliness: is there an alternative? Except not relying on
> Debian patches, of course... I was going to say: you could try the Gentoo
> version, but that one is actually using the Debian patches too :-)
Hey! I just said it was ugly. I never said it was not needed. ;-)
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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