When Buildroot finds that for a given package, an
+<pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR+ has been defined, it will no longer attempt to
download, extract and patch the package. Instead, it will directly use
-the source code available in in the specified directory and +make
-clean+ will not touch this directory. This allows to point Buildroot
-to your own directories, that can be managed by Git, Subversion, or
-any other version control system. To achieve this, Buildroot will use
-_rsync_ to copy the source code of the component from the specified
+the source code available in the specified directory and +make clean+
+will not touch this directory. This allows to point Buildroot to your
+own directories, that can be managed by Git, Subversion, or any other
+version control system. To achieve this, Buildroot will use _rsync_ to
+copy the source code of the component from the specified
+<pkg>_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR+ to +output/build/<package>-custom/+.
This mechanism is best used in conjunction with the +make