From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hajime Branko Yamasaki Vukelic Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:43:21 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Overriding Buildroot packages Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi everyone! I've set up my build such that all modification are done in BR2_EXTERNAL directory, and I have a submodule that points to unmodified upstream buildroot sources. I've been trying to find a way to override a package that is normally provided by Buildroot. By 'override' I mean completely swap it with another package definition, possibly with different patches, etc. Right now I've created a package that has a completely different name (e.g., for package 'foo', I have 'foo-custom'), but this breaks dependencies for packages that would otherwise depend on the original. I've dug into pkg-generic.mk and I see that it may not really be possible, but I wanted to confirm. Can someone tell me if I'm missing something or this really isn't possible without modifying the buildroot version of the package? -- Branko branko at brankovukelic.com /dev/blog: brankovukelic.com