[Buildroot] [PATCH] manual: patches are not applied for SITE_METHOD = local

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Wed Jul 19 13:52:31 UTC 2017


>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be> writes:

 > We had several remarks on the mailing list of users that were surprised
 > that patches were not applied for packages whose SITE_METHOD is local.
 > So document this.

 > Note that for OVERRIDE_SRCDIR itself it is already documented:

 >   When Buildroot finds that for a given package, an
 >   <pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR has been defined, it will no longer attempt to
 >   download, extract and patch the package. Instead, it will directly use
 >   the source code available in in the specified directory.

 > Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>

Committed to 2017.02.x and 2017.05.x, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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