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

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello,

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Tom Rini <trini at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> 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) ?
>
Exactly what I had in mind, for the reasons mentioned.

I only care about the local patches.

Edit source, quilt refresh, and my checkout has a modified patch.

Regards,
-- 
Leon