[Buildroot] Bumping Buildroot environment

[Aditya Rawat]

Yes I agree Arnout, about merging every Buildroot release,
now this seems to be very daunting idea, I just started work on this
environment.

Actually the reason why I had been trying to bump the buildroot
environment was to bump the available Php package in the current
environment (has php 5.2)  >>
https://github.com/Pivosgroup/buildroot-linux
The brave new world comes with 5.4, I guess it would be just better to
update the /package/php to get package bump or are there any other
implications ?



On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
>
> On 04/02/13 19:51, Aditya Rawat wrote:
>>
>> Hello, I am just starting out with working on Buildroot and so far its
>> been amazing !
>>
>> my question was : How could we go about bumping a buildroot environment
>> to the most recent one ?
>> You see I had been working one a buildroot environment at
>> https://github.com/j1nx/buildroot-AmLogic
>> and noticed some of the packages were missing or not there at all as from
>> the most recent Buildroot release.
>>
>> So I tried doing a  "Git merge" of the Buildroot current branch to the
>> older buildroot environment at >>
>> https://github.com/j1nx/buildroot-AmLogic
>> and it went ahead broke dozen different things.
>>
>> Any pointers to update the Buildroot environment the right way ?
>>
>> --
>> Best Wishes;
>> Adi
>
>
>  Hi Adi,
>
>  Just today we were discussing on the Buildroot Developer Day what a pity
> it is that there are so many buildroot forks and that we never hear from
> them. So first of all, thank you for joining the list!
>
>  Forking a fast-moving project like buildroot, making 615 patches to it
> and then expecting it to merge smoothly after two years is a fantasy :-)
>
>  Although there are other paths such as rebasing or incremental merges, in
> the end you'll just have to resolve the conflicts. But probably many can be
> resolved by just checking out the buildroot version ("git checkout
> origin/master Config.in").
>
>  You'll also have to slightly rewrite all your packages, because it is no
> longer $(eval $(call AUTOTARGETS,host)) but it's $(eval
> $(host-autotools-package)).
>
>
>  For changes you think could be relevant to the buildroot community as a
> whole, you could also consider upstreaming them first, so that during the
> merge you can just resolve to the buildroot version. For the future, my
> advise is to upstream more often (certainly whenever you're touching a
> package that already exists in buildroot, and preferably also for new
> packages), and to merge more often (for instance every buildroot release).
>
>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
>
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--
Best Wishes;
Adi