[oe] [RFC] How to handle external kernel patches in oe the right way?

[Graeme Gregory]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:52:21PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> I'm afraid I'm with Mickey here. I don't like the way this "prepatching"
> works and I think its pretty ugly but I can understand why people are
> doing it. I'd like to see a better solution but until then what they're
> doing allows them to develop effectively which is what we're supposed to
> be about.
> 
Maybe if I get some free time around october I might suggest enhancing
the fetcher/patcher so that any URL can have a

http://blah.com/patches.gz;patchseries=1
svn://wibble.com/branchs/smoo/;patchseries=1

And it does the right thing.

Or am I going backwards?

Graeme