[yocto] [opkg-devel] Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] opkg-utils: update-alternatives fails for "[" and "[[" in busybox

[Paul Barker]

On 28 October 2014 02:02, Liu Jian <jian.liu at windriver.com> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Thanks to your correction.
>
> Could you please tell me the mailing lists? I use this mailing lists
> following the
> guidance of
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/opkg-utils/tree/CONTRIBUTING.
>
> You told me that URL in your last mail. So should I follow the instruction
> in it?
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Jian
>

The mailing lists you sent the patch to are correct for opkg-utils.
The patch you sent modified the opkg-utils recipe within OpenEmbedded
rather than modifying opkg-utils itself. As opkg and opkg-utils are
part of the Yocto Project, we prefer to fix problems in the upstream
repositories rather than maintaining patches within OpenEmbedded.

To submit a patch for opkg-utils, you need to clone from
git://git.yoctoproject.org/opkg-utils, apply and commit your changes
with a Sign-off as you have done for OpenEmbedded. So the patch will
apply to the opkg-utils repository rather than the openembedded-core
repository. Then send that patch to the mailing lists. I'd recommend
sending via 'git send-email' rather than using your normal email
client as that will ensure the patch doesn't get corrupted.
Alternatively, for opkg and opkg-utils I accept patches attached to a
regular email as a .patch file.

Many thanks,

-- 
Paul Barker

Email: paul at paulbarker.me.uk
http://www.paulbarker.me.uk