> On Nov 4, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Chris Hallinan <challi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to "patch a patch" in a u-boot recipe using standard
> bbappends technique. I added a task before do_patch after do_unpack
> to munge the patch that was broken. Here is what seems to happen:
>
> do_unpack:
> copies all the patch files from the metadata layer into ${WORKDIR}
>
> do_fix_patch (my additional task)
> uses sed or patch to apply a local fix to a broken patch in ${WORKDIR}
>
> do_patch
> creates a subdirectory in ${S} called "patches", and puts links to
> the actual files in the layer and uses those links back to the layer
> files to apply the patches.
>
> It seems quilt is using the actual layer files instead of the ones in
> ${WORKDIR}??
>
> This seems odd and somehow wrong. We copy the layer files into
> WORKDIR, and the unsuspecting user (me) thinks those are the files
> that do_patch will use.
>
> This one took me some time (and help) to figure out!
>
> Comments? Is this a bug? halfway in the middle of some architectural
> changes? Expected behavior?while what you are doing is quite questionable. You seem to have a point. Most probably copy of the files in workdir should be removed from happening. > > My workaround was to simply replace the entire patch. you should use the quilt workflow and edit/refresh the patch once and copy it back to metadata once for all yes. > > -Chris > > -- > Life is like Linux - it never stands still. > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
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