[Buildroot] external, how to achieve our needs?

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Ludovic" == Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches at microchip.com> writes:

 > Hi Mircea,
 > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 12:11:36PM +0000, Mircea GLIGA wrote:
 >> Hi Ludovic,
 >> 
 >> I also have this kind of problems when implementing our external,
 >> sometimes is useful to 'override' or append to a recipe (Yocto
 >> style).
 >> 
 >> * I ended up "duplicating" recipes in our layer, e.g. bd-tcpdump
 >> in order to build the package differently

 > From the top of my head, I tried this and I got an error when duplicating
 > the recipes in the external. Did you use other tricks?

Buildrot uses a global namespace, so you have to rename the package (and
the makefile/kconfig symbols) for it to work.

It naturally only works for packages without any reverse dependencies as
those packages doesn't know about your custom 'foo' package.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard