[yocto] How to patch a file in mysql recipe

[Greg Wilson-Lindberg]

Hi Martin,

Your suggestion worked just fine, Thanks for the suggestion.
Regards,
Greg
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Hundebøll [mailto:mnhu at prevas.dk]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2018 10:39 PM
> To: Greg Wilson-Lindberg <GWilson at sakuraus.com>; yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto] How to patch a file in mysql recipe
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 2018-04-19 00:06, Greg Wilson-Lindberg wrote:
> > I need to patch the my.cnf file that is part of the mysql/mariadb
> > recipe. It lives in
> > meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/mysql/mariadb/my.cnf with
> > the mariadb_5.5.52.bb file one level down.
> >
> > I've set up a mariadb_5.5.52.bbappend file as:
> >
> > FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${FILE_DIRNAME}/${PN}:"
> >
> > SRC_URI += "file://my.cnf.patch"
> >
> > # need to enable auto startup
> > SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN}-server = "enable"
> >
> > bitbake finds the my.cnf.patch file but reports that it can't find the
> > my.cnf file to patch. I've set up patching of files that are
> > downloaded as part of a source tree, but never tried to patch a file
> > that is part of a recipe, and apparently I'm missing something. Is it
> > possible to do this, and if so, can someone point out what I need to
> > do to do it correctly?
> 
> External sources usually lives in ${S}, while recipe local sources are placed in
> ${WORKDIR}. To make OE apply the patch in ${WORDIR} instead of ${S}, add the
> "patchdir"[1] option to the SRC_URI:
> 
> SRC_URI += "file://my.cnf.patch;patchdir=${WORKDIR}"
> 
> I haven't used this myself, though, so I might be wrong...
> 
> // Martin
> 
> [1]
> https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#new-
> recipe-patching-code