[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 next] openblas: new package

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 05/19/16 16:00, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 19 May 2016 14:42:46 +0100, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote:
[snip]
>>> > > I think that for such small patches, that are not taken from upstream,
>>> > > my preference is to have them in Buildroot itself rather than
>>> > > downloaded by <pkg>_PATCH.  
>> > 
>> > I remember someone told me that we prefer this method when possible...
>
> Yeah, we don't have a very fixed policy on this. My own thinking is
> that it's fine to use <pkg>_PATCH to fetch patches that are already
> otherwise available (from another distribution or from upstream), but
> when it's done by "us", it's better to have the patch in Buildroot
> itself. But I agree that the line between both solutions is thin.

 I indeed once wrote "we prefer to download patches through FOO_PATCH rather
than including it". I think in that particular case it was a patch from a
different distro. Anyway, I didn't really think it through at the time. I
certainly agree that it should only be for upstream patches, and maybe also
patches from different distros.

 Regards,
 Arnout


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