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

[Yann E. MORIN]

Peter, All,

On 2013-09-16 22:49 +0200, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "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.

What about extracting the tarballs and only applying patches if the
filename contains (or end up with) '.patch' ?

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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