[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 1/4] Add yp-tools and ypbind-mt to packages menu

Jonathan Ben Avraham yba at tkos.co.il
Sun Jan 24 15:47:58 UTC 2016


On Sun, 24 Jan 2016, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:38:27 +0100
> From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>
> Cc: buildroot at busybox.net
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4 1/4] Add yp-tools and ypbind-mt to packages
>      menu
> 
> Dear Jonathan Ben Avraham,
>
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:33:24 +0200 (IST), Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
>
>> That is, one patch should look something like
>>
>>  	source "package/xinetd/Config.in"
>>  	source "package/xl2tp/Config.in"
>>  	source "package/xtables-addons/Config.in"
>>   +	source "package/yp-tools/Config.in"
>>  	source "package/znc/Config.in"
>
> This change should be part of the patch adding package/yp-tools/.
>
>> and the other should look like
>>
>>  	source "package/xinetd/Config.in"
>>  	source "package/xl2tp/Config.in"
>>  	source "package/xtables-addons/Config.in"
>>   +	source "package/ypbind-mt/Config.in"
>>  	source "package/znc/Config.in"
>
> This change should be part of the patch adding package/ypbind-mt/
>
>> And then we rely on the order of the application of the patches to
>> determine the order of the items in the final Config.in?
>
> Yes. A series is a list of patches that are ordered. They will be
> applied in the order they are listed in your series. Many series have
> patches that have dependencies between each other, that's the whole
> purpose of sending them as a series rather than independently.

Hi Thomas,
Thanks. I was not aware of the use of patch order to determine the final 
outcome and so I intentionally created a series that could be applied in 
any order and still have the desired outcome.

  - yba


> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
>

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