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Author SHA1 Message Date
Alexander Mukhin
48934ed0a9 docs: clarify <packagename>_PATCH behaviour
Reiterate once more that <packagename>_PATCH variable can point
to an arbitrary URL, not just to a path relative to <packagename>_SITE.

While we're at it, also explain that the patch should be added to the
.hash file.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Mukhin <alexander.i.mukhin@gmail.com>
[Arnout: add sentence about .hash file.]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
2017-09-24 14:43:37 +02:00
Gary Bisson
fe7babeeb0 docs/manual: fix patch naming convention
Otherwise conflicts with the naming convention from previous section.

Signed-off-by: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson@boundarydevices.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2016-08-09 15:45:32 +02:00
Luca Ceresoli
2004003697 docs/manual: add section about patch licensing
Use the same text that is used in COPYING.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Steve Calfee <stevecalfee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-03-01 12:46:58 +01:00
Luca Ceresoli
8ab41aed2c docs/manual: slightly clarify patch licensing
Adding a patch is a modification to Buildroot. Thus this sentence might be
interpreted as "Patches are released under the Buildroot license".

Being a legal matter, the last thing we want is to be
ambiguous. Reword the sentence to avoid any misunderstandings.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2016-02-25 11:33:00 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle
aafff45965 manual: clarify policy when updating a package patch
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Renaud AUBIN <root@renaud.io>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2015-12-16 23:44:03 +01:00
Yann E. MORIN
8e7d179f83 docs/manual: document the new patch naming convention
To ease generating patches, we now use a naming convention that is in
line with what git-format-patch does, that is:
  - do not prefix patches with the package name
  - prefix patches with a 4-digit mber
  - start numbering at 0001

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-12-07 21:32:01 +01:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
69a5343bfb manual/user guide/customization: rename section 'Customizing packages'
This small patch renames the section 'Customizing packages' to 'Adding
project-specific patches'. Additionally, a minor change is done to the
introduction of this section.
To better reflect the contents, the source file is renamed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2014-09-21 19:41:12 +02:00
Thomas De Schampheleire
86a415df8a manual: use one-line titles instead of two-line titles (trivial)
Asciidoc supports two syntaxes for section titles: two-line titles (title
plus underline consisting of a particular symbol), and one-line titles
(title prefixed with a specific number of = signs).

The two-line title underlines are:
Level 0 (top level):     ======================
Level 1:                 ----------------------
Level 2:                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Level 3:                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Level 4 (bottom level):  ++++++++++++++++++++++

and the one-line title prefixes:
= Document Title (level 0) =
== Section title (level 1) ==

=== Section title (level 2) ===
==== Section title (level 3) ====
===== Section title (level 4) =====

The buildroot manual is currenly using the two-line titles, but this has
multiple disadvantages:

- asciidoc also uses some of the underline symbols for other purposes (like
  preformatted code, example blocks, ...), which makes it difficult to do
  mass replacements, such as a planned follow-up patch that needs to move
  all sections one level down.

- it is difficult to remember which level a given underline symbol (=-~^+)
  corresponds to, while counting = signs is easy.

This patch changes all two-level titles to one-level titles in the manual.
The bulk of the change was done with the following Python script, except for
the level 1 titles (-----) as these underlines are also used for literal
code blocks.
This patch only changes the titles, no other changes. In
adding-packages-directory.txt, I did add missing newlines between some
titles and their content.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import mmap
import re

for input in sys.argv[1:]:

    f = open(input, 'r+')
    f.flush()
    s = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0)

    # Level 0 (top level):     ======================   =
    # Level 1:                 ----------------------   ==
    # Level 2:                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   ===
    # Level 3:                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   ====
    # Level 4 (bottom level):  ++++++++++++++++++++++   =====

    def replace_title(s, symbol, replacement):
        pattern = re.compile(r'(.+\n)\%s{2,}\n' % symbol, re.MULTILINE)
        return pattern.sub(r'%s \1' % replacement, s)

    new = s
    new = replace_title(new, '=', '=')
    new = replace_title(new, '+', '=====')
    new = replace_title(new, '^', '====')
    new = replace_title(new, '~', '===')
    #new = replace_title(new, '-', '==')

    s.seek(0)
    s.write(new)
    s.resize(s.tell())
    s.close()
    f.close()

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2014-05-02 10:27:59 +02:00
Ryan Barnett
b3a939367f manual: update for multiple global patch dirs
Updating the documentation to reflect that multiple directories can
now be specified for BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR. Along with giving an
example use case of how to use multiple global patch directories.

[Thomas: fix minor typo mentionned by Thomas De Schampheleire.]

Signed-off-by: Ryan Barnett <rjbarnet@rockwellcollins.com>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
2013-12-25 17:31:55 +01:00
Ralph Siemsen
f7da9ee5bd Trivial documentation fix for Signed-off-by
Make consistent the capitalization and punctuation of Signed-of-by examples.

Signed-off-by: Ralph Siemsen <ralphs@netwinder.org>
Acked-by: "Samuel Martin" <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-16 15:43:00 +02:00
Peter Korsgaard
4bfb52c114 docs/patch-policy.txt: fix missing word
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-09-16 09:00:15 +02:00
Simon Dawson
5538e47662 rework patch model
At the Buildroot Developers Meeting (4-5 February 2013, in Brussels) a change
to the patch logic was discussed. See

http://elinux.org/Buildroot:DeveloperDaysFOSDEM2013

for details. In summary:

* For patches stored in the package directory, if
  package/<pkg>/<version>/ does exist, apply package/<pkg>/<version>/*.patch,
  otherwise, apply package/<pkg>/*.patch
* For patches stored in the global patches directory, if
  $(GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<pkg>/<version>/ does exist, apply
  $(GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<pkg>/<version>/*.patch, otherwise, apply
  $(GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<pkg>/*.patch

This patch adds the new BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR configuration item, and reworks
the generic package infrastructure to implement the new patch logic.

[Peter: fixup doc nits as pointed out by Thomas]
Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-03-19 23:10:49 +01:00
Samuel Martin
7a26f2f663 manual: minor fix in patch-policy.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-28 22:37:12 +01:00
Samuel Martin
58e2e9d804 manual: minor fix in patch-policy.txt
[Peter: Drop *.patch.<arch> description as noted by Thomas]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-17 22:53:49 +01:00
Samuel Martin
3edb0271db manual: cleanup and update editor tags
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2013-02-17 22:50:04 +01:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
65f66c170e manual: various fixes
Various consistency and correctness improvements.

Also removing some sentences that are not or no longer relevant.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-27 17:07:42 -08:00
Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind)
1d989fafba manual: trivial fixes
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-27 17:07:39 -08:00
Simon Dawson
ecd2353555 manual: minor tweaks
Minor grammatical and spelling tweaks to the manual content.

Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-16 22:24:42 +01:00
Samuel Martin
6c61000c3a manual: add patch-policy.txt
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2012-11-15 23:59:54 +01:00