[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] package/refpolicy: Add patches pending the next release

Maxime Chevallier maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com
Fri Jan 8 09:59:18 UTC 2021


Hi Thomas,

On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 17:55:43 +0100
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>On Thu,  7 Jan 2021 14:53:05 +0100
>Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com> wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/package/refpolicy/0001-pending-next-release.patch b/package/refpolicy/0001-pending-next-release.patch
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000000..e049845638
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/package/refpolicy/0001-pending-next-release.patch
>> @@ -0,0 +1,673 @@
>> +From 2566e2dac2c759392e0b9f3d442b8489b726cb10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> +From: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart at bootlin.com>
>> +Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:38:13 +0200
>> +Subject: [PATCH 1/8] [pending next release]  
>
>Could you generate patches for packages with git format-patch -N to
>avoid the numbering PATCH X/Y ? This is normally caught by "make
>check-package".

OK I'll do that.

>Also, this particular patch is apparently a huge aggregation of several
>individual upstream commits. We do want to have each individual commit
>as a separate patch in Buildroot, with a reference to the upstream
>commit, a bit like this:
>
>Signed-off-by: Antoine Ténart ...
>Upstream: link to upstream commit, or at least commit hash
>Signed-off-by: You

OK I'll resubmit with individual patches. I wanted to ease the task by
grouping patches that could be removed all at once in the next release.

I hope that having a large number of patches bundled with the refpolicy
package will be acceptable.

Thanks,

Maxime

>Thanks!
>
>Thomas



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