[Buildroot] Overriding Buildroot packages

[Hajime Branko Yamasaki Vukelic <branko@brankovukelic.com>]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> wrote:

[SNIP]

>> Ideally, ability to override some aspect of an existing package (e.g.,
>> only its version, or only the source URL, or something along those
>> lines) would be great to have. If not, then, a mechanism to make two
>> packages equivalent (something like virtual packages but applicaable
>> to packages that are not explicitly virtual) would also work (e.g.,
>> `POSTGRES_95_PROVIDES = postgres`, that causes having postgres-95
>> selected to satisfy dependency requirement for a package that
>> selects/depends on postgres).
>
>  There is a fairly easy way to make it possible to override the version and
> dependencies, but I think it's a bit ugly. In inner-generic-package, instead of
> defining all the rules directly, we could add yet another level of direction and
> delay the definition of the rules until after BR2_EXTERNAL has been included.

What if a package has <pkgname>.hash file? If I simply override the
version, wouldn't that still break when checking the hash?


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