[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Add notes explaining that SITE_METHOD == local prevents any patches from being applied to the package sources.

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Feb 8 08:57:49 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 22:46:43 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

> When a package source is overridden using the FOO_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR
> mechanism, the same is true: no patches are applied automatically, the
> overridden srcdir is supposed to be complete and used as-is. Perhaps
> the documentation updates could also cover that?

Exactly the comment I wanted to make, so yes, definitely agree with you.

Thomas
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