[Buildroot] [PATCH v3] apply-patches.sh: detect missing patches

[Ralph Siemsen]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:11:49AM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> 
> The tarball contains:
> 
> debian/
> debian/control
> debian/postinst
> debian/postinst.nfs
> debian/source/
> debian/source/options
> debian/source/format
> debian/shlibs
> debian/prerm.nfs
> debian/rules
> debian/postrm
> debian/shlibs.nfslock
> debian/patches/
> debian/patches/07-493462-dotlockfile.c.patch
> debian/patches/series
> debian/patches/04-505851-remove-debug-code.patch
> debian/patches/02-COPYRIGHT.patch
> debian/patches/06-493462-dotlockfile.1.patch
> debian/patches/09-562937-make-ar-overwrittable.patch
> debian/changelog
> 
> So a bunch of non-patch files. I guess our best option is to degrade the
> "Unsupported format" check to a warning again?

Hmm, none of the packages I regularly build have used this feature.

Going back to a warning would be a simple fix. The other option would
be to expand the tarballs and extract only the patches directory.
I'm not sure which option is better...

-Ralph