[Buildroot] [PATCH 5/6] apply-patches.sh: change archive management

Ludovic Desroches ludovic.desroches at atmel.com
Thu Mar 15 08:27:53 UTC 2012


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:43:14PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Le Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:33:56 +0100,
> ludovic.desroches at atmel.com a écrit :
> 
> > From: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches at atmel.com>
> > 
> > The way archives were managed was incorrect because the uncompressed archives
> > were sent directly to the patch command. It means that alphabetical patch
> > order was not respected.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches at atmel.com>
> > Tested-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches at atmel.com>
> > with an armadeus_apf9328_defconfig build
> 
> I was initially a bit surprised by the usage of --strip-components=1,
> which means that the tarball must contain one directory, and this
> directory should contain all the patches. I kind of excepted the
> patches to be at the root of the tarball, but I don't feel very
> strongly about this, so:
> 
> Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> Tested-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

A comment is really missing here to explain why I used it. In fact, it's quite
old and this set of patches has changed a lot from the first version. I can't
remember why I used it and if it is still needed.

I will keep you inform if I remember in which case I need it.


Regards

Ludovic



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