On 18 July 2014 19:58, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote: > not sure where i saw this recently (i'll track it down), but some OE > or yocto doc claimed that patch files *must* be suffixed with > ".patch". i'm pretty sure it can be either .patch or .diff, correct? > as in, it's perfectly valid to do this in a .bbappend file: > > SRC_URI += "file://0001-first-change.patch" > SRC_URI += "file://0002-first-change.patch" > SRC_URI += "file://0003-first-change.diff" > > as long as the filenames match, of course. yes?
For a file to be handled automatically as a patch it must be .diff or .patch, and it appears that it can be optionally compressed (identifying extensions being .Z .gz .bz2), so foo.patch and bar.diff.gz are both automatically applied patches. Ross -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
