[yocto] One recipe, two gits with destsuffix, how to patch?

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 27 January 2015 10:29:12 Kalle Komierowski wrote:
> I just modified my recipe with the patchdir.
> SRC_URI = "
> xxxxx.patch;patchdir=backports/
> 
> I can see that the patches are copied to the destination where I want them
> but for some reason they all fail when yocto tries to apply them. If I go
> manually to the destination git and type "git am xxxxx.patch" the all apply
> with no problem, I also tried to "patch -p1 < xxxxx.patch" and that worked
> to. Maybe I should play a bit with the striplevel? But I do think that
> yocto should be able to handle it from the point where I gave it the
> patchdir=..

The default striplevel is 1. If the patch is formatted typically, suspect this 
means that you'd need patchdir to be set to ../backports - does that not work?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre