On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:04 PM, JustinLove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a good way to maintain a small number of local > customizations/patches while staying synced with upstream changes?
I use a mixture of bitbake overlays and modifications tracked in git. 1) overlay - for completely new packages/conf files. It is rather nice to have completely custom packages that will never get pushed into mainstream completely decoupled from the OE tree as you can then more easily switch OE trees, etc. This is a very nice feature of OE. 2) tweaks to existing packages -- simply track in git as git is very good at tracking local changes and merging upstream changes. It also makes it much easier to push changes back upstream than if changes are in an overlay. Initially, I simply copied the package to the overlay and changed it, but it is very difficult to figure out what you changed unless you take careful notes -- this is what a SCM is for. Cliff -- ======================= Cliff Brake http://bec-systems.com _______________________________________________ Openembedded-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-users
