[Buildroot] Howto handle fork of an existing package

[Atilla Filiz]

On 08/04/2017 06:41 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>
> On 04-08-17 16:41, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>>
>> 4. Contribute to the official wiringpi project instead of doing a fork,
>> so that a single project supports multiple platforms.
>   Tell that to the LeMaker people, not to Atilla. And while you're at it, tell
> the RaspberryPi people to not fork the kernel interfaces so that there is no
> need to create a library that has to be forked for RaspberryPi-derivatives...
It is not only up to Lemaker, as WiringPi website says although forks 
are encouraged, only Raspberry Pi is officially supported. They do not 
intend to support anything else.
>> I think I have a preference for option (4). If not possible, option (3)
>> will be acceptable, but not as nice :-)
>   Essentially there is no real relationship between the proprietary GPIO
> interface for RPi and the *different* proprietary GPIO interface for BPi, so I
> wouldn't mind solution (1). It's a different upstream with a potentially
> different API...
>
>   By the way, upstream says:
> "This is a modified WiringPi for Banana Pro/Pi. We call it WiringBP."
> So naturally, the package should be called wiringbp.
Good point. I will test and submit a proper patch as wiringbp. Thank you 
both.

Regards
Atilla