[Buildroot] Best-Practice Suggestions for developing package patches in buildroot

Bryce Schober bryce.schober at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 00:04:19 UTC 2015


Buildroot devs,

It would be helpful to get ideas for how best to develop a set of patches
against a package's upstream source inside of the buildroot context
(cross-compiler, libraries, etc.).

Do you use something like quilt to manage patches while developing them?

Do you fork the upstream repository a switch the package to use the fork,
then back out your modifications into patches?

Do you just copy the full commands generated by buildroot and use re-use
them outside of buildroot's high-level make commands?

For package problems that can be reproduced & fixed outside of the full
buildroot sysroot it's much less of a problem. I'm interested specifically
in development workflows that would be helpful for packages that have
problems that require the buildroot sysroot to reproduce and fix.

Thanks,
Bryce Schober
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