[oe] Patches to svn based recipes

Koen Kooi k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Tue Oct 16 16:09:35 UTC 2007


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Philippe De Swert schreef:
> Hi all!
> 
> 
>> Could people please stop doing stuff like:
>>
>> openmoko-panel-bt_svn.bb: Drop panel-bluetooth.patch, as it was applied upstream
>> # delete "packages/openmoko-panel-plugins/files/panel-bluetooth.patch"
>>
>> openmoko-dialer2_svn.bb : patch is now applied upstream
>> - -SRC_URI += "file://openmoko-dialer.patch;patch=1"
>>
>> matchbox-keyboard: Bump svn revision and remove some patches in the bb file
>> since these patches were applied upstream.
>> - -        file://matchbox-keyboard-applet.patch;patch=1;pnum=0 \
>> - -	file://matchbox-keyboard-hide-delay.patch;patch=1"
>>
>> And use ;minrev= and ;maxrev=. Removing patches makes regression testing and
> building
>> older versions impossible.
> 
> Ok. So all those things are forbidden. Good. So what are we expected to write
> in the commit message then?

Write what you want in the commit message, as long as you update the SRC_URI to use
;minrev= and ;maxrev=
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