[oe] [RFC Wild Ideas Department] create soft-links from <pkg>/<src>/patches/some_local.patch to <oe.git>/packages/<pkg>/files/some_local.patch

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:00:13AM -0700, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Leon Woestenberg
> <leon.woestenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > during maintenance of our local set of OE patches, it would be handy
> > not having to copy patches back into the repository.
> >
> > i.e. the patch fetcher could instead of copy the patch to the work
> > directory, soft-link from the repo.
> 
> I can see why you want it.   The file:// fetcher copies everything,
> not just patches, they aren't fetched differently currently.  You
> could introduce regressions if it were to affect anything but patches,
> so you'd have to add a special case for uris with patch=1 in the
> file:// fetcher to link instead of copy, and possibly make it optional
> via a variable.  I take it you do a lot of patch alterations in the
> workdir to fix problems?

A lot? No.  But for everyone working from a fixed OE snapshot, this
would be a nice timesaver.  Heck, soft-linking all of the file URIs
would be nice here.  Perhaps a variable to control doing it always
(default to off) ?

-- 
Tom Rini