[OE-core] [meta-oe][PATCH] dosfstools-2.11: Fix memory leak in mkdosfs

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at 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
>
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