On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Peter Bigot <[email protected]> wrote: > The patch in > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded.scm/49645includes > /../ as a path component; as noted in > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-users/2011-March/001249.htmland > not resolved otherwise that I could find, this construct will not work > on Fedora 14 or 15 because a security patch prevents application of patches > that include up-directory components in the paths. > > My bitbake skills are not presently up to cleanly creating and applying a > patch to a file outside the S directory; how should this be fixed? (I'm > hoping for something other than "don't use Fedora".)
Modify the patch so that it doesn't use '../' and then add ';patchdir=dir' to the line in SRC_URI. dir here should be relative to S, iirc. A quick 'git grep' should show a few other examples of this usage today. -- Tom _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
