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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 $(GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<pkg>/*.patch This patch adds the new BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR configuration item, and reworks the generic package infrastructure to implement the new patch logic. [Peter: fixup doc nits as pointed out by Thomas] Signed-off-by: Simon Dawson <spdawson@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Tested-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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// -*- mode:doc -*- ;
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[[packages-custom]]
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Customizing packages
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It is sometimes useful to apply 'extra' patches to packages - over and
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above those provided in Buildroot. This might be used to support custom
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features in a project, for example, or when working on a new architecture.
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The +BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR+ configuration file option can be
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used to specify a directory containing global package patches.
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For a specific version <packageversion> of a specific package <packagename>,
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patches are applied as follows.
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First, the default Buildroot patch set for the package is applied.
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If the directory +$(BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<packagename>/<packageversion>+
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exists, then all +*.patch+ files in the directory will be applied.
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Otherwise, if the directory +$(BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR)/<packagename>+
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exists, then all +*.patch+ files in the directory will be applied.
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