That is only for certain upstream patches. We're not planning to continue using the patching system in the future.
-Michael Wu ----- Original Message ----- > We have infrastructure to deal with this in the form of an automated > patching system for smaller patches that we cannot upstream. > > https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gonk-patches Contains the relevant > code and the current set of patches. The patching script is invoked > as a part of build.sh. > > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jed Davis" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 11:03:39 AM > Subject: [b2g] B2G-specific changes to Android repositories > > What are we planning to do with changes we make to the various > Android > repositories we're using? Ideally we'd like to upstream changes > where > possible, but some of them may not be of interest upstream, and/or > we'd want to be able to build with them sooner than the upstream > would > accept them, and/or we might need to backport them anyway. > Alternately, > there exists gonk-patches, which works well enough technically, but > my > understanding is that we're trying to avoid using it where possible. > > So (at least in some cases) we'd need to fork things, and create our > own > branches on the Mozilla project's mirrors and push to them, but I > don't > know what the process for accomplishing that is, or even if one > exists. > > Specifically, I don't know what I should be doing to make progress on > bug 870639, which is blocking a lot of my profiling work from being > able > to be landed; but, in general, this seems unlikely to be the last > issue > of this form that we encounter. > > --Jed > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
