On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 4:32 AM Andrei Gherzan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2022, at 09:01, Jacob Kroon wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> On Wednesday, July 13, 2022, Marco Cavallini <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 12/07/22 19:59, Philip Balister wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks to everyone that replies and especially to people helping get 
> >> answers from outside our developer bubble.
> >>
> >> See the attached pdf.
> >>
> >> Philip
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Philip,
> >
> > Very interesting and confirming my thoughts.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > --
> > Marco
> >
>
> I haven't checked out all the tools listed in the survey, but does any of 
> them handle managing local patches being applied to the meta layers/git repos 
> ? Because that is the single reason I'm still using a custom 
> Makefile+scripts. I do *not* want to manage my own forked git repos for all 
> layers that contain my customizations. And before you ask why I need 
> customizations in layers, welcome to the real world.
>
>
> You can also maintain an extra layer that handles the changes you are 
> interested in. And even if that is not possible, in my experience, 
> maintaining a fork is less headache than maintaining custom infrastructure 
> and tooling for handling patches over existing layers.

We do both: "fixes" layer(s) with bbappends for stuff that can be done
that way, and a local mirror of the upstream repo where we backport
patches that can't be done with the "fixes" layers. The "fixes" layers
are nice because it's a clear record of what you changed from upstream
which is nice when upgrading to newer versions of the layers which is
why it is preferred. For the other things, I have a very strict policy
that I won't backport anything to our mirror unless it's in upstream
master first, and depending on the change I may require it to be
backported to the appropriate LTS branch also.

>
> --
> Andrei Gherzan
> gpg: rsa4096/D4D94F67AD0E9640
>
> 
>
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