On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 03:01:50PM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 02:48:20PM +0100, Alexander Dahl wrote: > > Hei hei, > > > > Am 2014-02-26 15:13, schrieb Sascha Hauer: > > > Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <[email protected]> > > > --- > > > > [snip] > > > > > + local-src <pkg> <directory> overwrite a package source with a > > > locally provided > > > + directory containing the sourcecode. > > > > What exactly is the use case for this? Which source gets overwritten > > with what other source and why? > > You may be aware that you can put a link from > local_src/${PACKAGE_NAME}_${PLATFORM} > to a local directory. In this case ptxdist will use this directory as > source directory for a package instead of the tarball. This is useful > if you are working on the sourcecode for a package while compiling with > ptxdist. The command is just a shortcut to create the link because I > always forget the exact name of the link. Obviously yes, it's local_src/${PACKAGE_NAME}.${PLATFORM} :-)
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