[Buildroot] Easy Upgrade Path?

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 02:29:45PM +0100, Thomas Lundquist wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:53:34AM -0800, Dan Pattison wrote:
> > 
> > Hello List:
> > 
> > I've been getting used to the buildroot development environment using 
> > 2009.02-RC2 for ARM AT91SAM9g20-EK. I have made lots of changes and 
> > additions that suit our project (config files, packages, etc.) We have 
> > successfully compiled and included some of our own programs.
> > 
> > What is the recommended method to upgrade to the newest build 
> > environment so we don't have to re-do everything? Is this possible?
> 
> Ulf introduced local/ when he started to commit and this was a good idea.
> 
> It got booted out some time later, by someone.
> 
> The point is that you can put your config files and non-included 
> packages there and keep that out of the rest of the tree.
> 
> I like the idea and would like to put it back in.

I'm using local/ a lot in my own development. I have config files
(buildroot, busybox, linux, uClibc), the device table and the
target_skeleton in there.

There wasn't any support for additional packages via local/ although it
would be useful - I had to modify the top level makefiles to add such a
section here, making maintenance more difficult.


Hamish
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