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| author | Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de> | 2019-10-08 12:07:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de> | 2019-10-08 17:36:18 +0200 |
| commit | e5fbe654a4814d396eb4a535b89856e574898991 (patch) | |
| tree | 4db0e1614921a83a9ab17dc53e470e404d56b244 /doc/dev_manual.rst | |
| parent | dcbc9e1e132f50f2b95ce15407289a636eea71c8 (diff) | |
| download | ptxdist-e5fbe654a4814d396eb4a535b89856e574898991.tar.gz ptxdist-e5fbe654a4814d396eb4a535b89856e574898991.tar.xz | |
doc: dev/ref manual: describe the <PKG>_PATCHES variable
Fixes: 2e2242356f0bc72a56bc ("ptxd_make_world_patchin: allow specifying a custom patch directory")
Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
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diff --git a/doc/dev_manual.rst b/doc/dev_manual.rst index c37094090..29d1cbf1d 100644 --- a/doc/dev_manual.rst +++ b/doc/dev_manual.rst @@ -1265,7 +1265,10 @@ integrated into your BSP or into PTXdist. PTXdist handles patching automatically. After extracting the archive of a package, PTXdist checks for the existence of -a patch directory named like its ``<PKG>`` variable. +a patch directory named like its ``<PKG>_PATCHES`` variable, or, if this variable +is not set, like its ``<PKG>`` variable. +The patch directory is then searched in all locations listed by the +``PTXDIST_PATH_PATCHES`` variable, and the first one found is used. Take an exemplary package ``foo`` with version ``1.1.0``: The variable ``FOO`` will have the value ``foo-1.1.0``, so PTXdist will look for a patch directory named ``foo-1.1.0`` in the following locations: |