[PATCH 2/2] UBUNTU: config -- allow locally specified configuration overrides

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Thu Mar 18 13:45:46 UTC 2010


OK, seems fine to me.

On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 17:01 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> When updating configuration you often want to bulk update specific options
> in every configuration.  For new options this is trivial as you can simply
> add them to config.common.<family>.  For existing options you need to
> either remove the options globally and then add them, or add them to
> every flavour file.  This is particularly problematic for mainline builds.
> 
> Add support for a new $(DEBIAN)/config/OVERRIDES file which if present is
> appended to the built configs before processing, providing an absolute
> override for all configurations.  This is not expected to be present in
> the normal case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
Acked-by: Colin King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
>  debian/scripts/misc/kernelconfig |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/debian/scripts/misc/kernelconfig b/debian/scripts/misc/kernelconfig
> index 936680c..71c0f5e 100755
> --- a/debian/scripts/misc/kernelconfig
> +++ b/debian/scripts/misc/kernelconfig
> @@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ for arch in $archs; do
>  				cat $archconfdir/config.common.$arch >> "$fullconf"
>  			fi
>  			cat "$archconfdir/$config" >>"$fullconf"
> +			if [ -f $confdir/OVERRIDES ]; then
> +				cat $confdir/OVERRIDES >> "$fullconf"
> +			fi
>  			;;
>  		esac
>  	done
> -- 
> 1.7.0
> 
> 






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