I am new to Buildroot and I am trying to figure out how to update genimage to newer version in Buildroot. I am currently on version 14 and I would like to update to version 15 of genimage tool.
Can anyone please let me know how to upgrade to newer versions of tools in Buildroot?
I found the PATCH file to bump to version 15 here : genimage But I am not sure how to apply this Patch file in Buildroot.
Thanks in advance.
P.S: I am using Buildroot 2021.11.2.
Patches can simply be applied with the 'patch' tool, but you probably have Buildroot in a git repo, so you can add it as a git commit with git am or directly cherry pick the commit with git cherry-pick . Do notice that genimage 15 does bring a few non-backwards compatible changes. If the above sounds complicated to you, then consider just moving to the 2022.02 release which includes it. The final 2022.02 release will be out in a few days, but you can already use 2022.02-rc3.
