build: allow openwrt.git packages to be replaced by feeds
authorJohn Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:09:23 +0000 (12:09 +0000)
committerJohn Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:09:23 +0000 (12:09 +0000)
commit045c40fb0532b36500fef190efc026608f08e621
treeeaf00a8f6495e578a39dbc6d4e7b414954d4741c
parent237b0069dcc45b0c0f5795f2e8b40c0492fe6e12
build: allow openwrt.git packages to be replaced by feeds

Currently, replacing a package available in openwrt.git requires
modifications in openwrt.git, or requires duplicating the package in a
feed but with a different name, which causes all kind of problems
related to dependencies (all packages selecting it would have to be
modified accordingly to select the new package).

With this change, if a package with the same name is present both in
feeds/ and package/ folders, the one in feeds/ can override the one
in package/, both in the menuconfig and during the build, by passing the
"-f" option to "./scripts/feeds install"

This mechanism is particularly useful for vendor tree, or in general for
application which needs to replace one particular package which exists
within openwrt.git by a custom/newer version.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Olivari <mathieu@qca.qualcomm.com>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@44334 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
include/scan.awk [new file with mode: 0644]
include/scan.mk
scripts/feeds