[PATCH 1/3] rsb: Store patches in separate directories

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Wed Jul 28 00:44:17 UTC 2021


On 28/7/21 12:13 am, Alex White wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 12:46 AM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 27/7/21 3:39 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> > On 27/07/2021 05:30, Alex White wrote:
>> >> This prevents patches with the same name from conflicting and causing
>> >> the build to fail.
>> >
>> > Why can't the patches have a unique file name?
>>
>> Yeap and if specific to Xilinx and their repos it should be labelled in a manner
>> that highlights that. Further you cannot create a release without unique file
>> names because we have a single source directory ....
>>
>> https://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/releases/5/5.1/sources/
>>
>> And I see no reason to change this.
> 
> I just realized that even if I separate these patches by build name, the problem
> would remain that patches for the same build item with the same name (however
> improbable they are) would conflict.
> 
> It looks like it would be better for me to create an RTEMS ticket to hold these
> patches and rename them to work around this issue. I'll do that.

Alex,

Could you please explain what the issue is rather than presenting us with
solutions we then reject? I have no idea what the problem is you are attempting
to solve.

Please do not create a ticket until there is general agreement this is the best
solution.

Thanks
Chris


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