[Buildroot] [PATCH v3] apply-patches.sh: detect missing patches

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at sunsite.dk
Mon Sep 16 20:49:58 UTC 2013


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 Thomas> Dear Peter Korsgaard,
 Thomas> On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:11:49 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

 >> So a bunch of non-patch files. I guess our best option is to degrade the
 >> "Unsupported format" check to a warning again?

 Thomas> Another way of seeing that is that using:

 Thomas> <pkg>_PATCH = some-debian-tarball

 Thomas> is not a good idea, and we should have a better way of handling this,
 Thomas> no?

Arguably yes, but this used to work so some people might be relying on
it - So I change it back to only warn about these files.

Nevertheless, it would be good if we could come up with a better way of
handling these Debian patches.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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