On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On Thursday 06 August 2015 12:12:35 Alexander Kanavin wrote: >> On 08/06/2015 12:06 PM, Amarnath Valluri wrote: >> > Added new patch that fixes the memory leak that was introduced in >> > mkdosfs-dir.patch. >> >> You should update the original patch then, not pile additional patches >> on top. The least painful way is: >> >> 1) unpack the sources (manually from tarball, or using bitbake -c unpack) >> 2) 'git init; git add *; git commit' to create an git repository from >> the sources >> 3) apply the patch that needs fixing, then do the fix >> 4) make a git commit, then produce a patch using git format-patch, then >> move the new patch back to the recipe directory and update the recipe >> 5) build the recipe to make sure it still builds >> 6) make a git commit with the recipe update, and submit it here :) > > On the contrary - the much less painful way (as of fido) is to use devtool: > > 1) Extract source and set the build system up to use it: > devtool modify dosfstools -x ~/projects/dosfstools > > 2) Make whatever changes you want to in the git tree that has been set up in > the specified path > > 3) Build the recipe (as you would normally) to make sure it still builds > > 4) Write the modified/added commits as patches back to the recipe: > devtool update-recipe dosfstools > > 5) Make a git commit with the recipe update, and submit it here :) > > I'd really like people to start using devtool for this kind of thing. If it's > not working for some reason please do let me know. >
This assumes either we use OE-Core or poky, I dont get it to work with angstrom out of box what am I missing > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > > Paul Eggleton > Intel Open Source Technology Centre > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
