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| author |   Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2015-01-19 10:14:16 -0800 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2015-02-17 15:16:51 +0000 |
| commit | 281c4728d6d5b5eb02d2e08783b8ca1a090ea730 (patch) | |
| tree | a73f72261ffdcb66a15770c464b1f4acfb4bd235 /documentation | |
| parent | 6a6687d6d5cdd21e4eb150d78e2ba2874c817e2a (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-contrib-281c4728d6d5b5eb02d2e08783b8ca1a090ea730.tar.gz | |
dev-manual: Edits to add more detail to where patch files are
Updated some text to indicate that you should put patch files
in $BP, $BPN, or "files." Also, added more on how the patch
files suffix is (i.e. accounting for compressed suffix names
like diff.bz).
Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
(From yocto-docs rev: d9e23da24e9d86ec5e2b9d4067667478f3e56ba1)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml index 2319be1d84..4696dd5d76 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml @@ -1935,7 +1935,9 @@ fetched. Any files mentioned in <filename>SRC_URI</filename> whose names end in <filename>.patch</filename> or - <filename>.diff</filename> are treated as patches. + <filename>.diff</filename> or compressed versions of these + suffixes (e.g. <filename>diff.gz</filename> are treated as + patches. The <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#ref-tasks-patch'><filename>do_patch</filename></ulink> task automatically applies these patches. @@ -1959,7 +1961,9 @@ using <filename>file://</filename>, you should place patch files in a directory next to the recipe either named the same as the base name of the recipe - (<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-BPN'><filename>BPN</filename></ulink>), + (<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-BP'><filename>BP</filename></ulink> + and + <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-BPN'><filename>BPN</filename></ulink>) or "files". </para> </section> |