Applying non local patches

Applying non local patches

[Devshatwar, Nikhil]

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Hi all,
Does yocto support applying patches which are under review
It is possible to download the patch and add it to the recipe along with the actual patch file

But  is there another way where we can point to the patches in the SRC_URI itself

Something similar to

SRC_URI= "git:git.fredesktop.org/project/repo.git;protocol=git \
      http://patchwork.freedesktop/project/repo/12345/raw;protocol=http \
"
Are there any examples of such reciepes
Please help

Thanks and regards,
Nikhil Devshatwar


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Re: Applying non local patches

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 01:02:09PM +0000, Devshatwar, Nikhil wrote:
> Hi all,
> Does yocto support applying patches which are under review
> It is possible to download the patch and add it to the recipe along with the actual patch file
> 
> But  is there another way where we can point to the patches in the SRC_URI itself
> 
> Something similar to
> 
> SRC_URI= "git:git.fredesktop.org/project/repo.git;protocol=git \
>       http://patchwork.freedesktop/project/repo/12345/raw;protocol=http \
> "
> Are there any examples of such reciepes
> Please help

Nikhil,

It's not recommended, but it was always possible. Here's an old example from 
OE Classic, as I couldn't find any recent one:

http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded/tree/recipes/busybox/busybox_1.7.2.bb

We moved away from that practice, as upstream used to constantly tweak and 
change patches, breaking the build all the time. Having patches in metadata 
gives more control, as updating patches, their checksums and making sure the 
build doesn't break can be done at the same time.

-- 
Denys

Re: Applying non local patches

[Devshatwar, Nikhil]

Hi Denys,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmytriyenko, Denys
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 3:20 AM
> To: Devshatwar, Nikhil
> Cc: meta-arago@arago-project.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-arago] Applying non local patches
> 
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 01:02:09PM +0000, Devshatwar, Nikhil wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Does yocto support applying patches which are under review It is
> > possible to download the patch and add it to the recipe along with
> the
> > actual patch file
> >
> > But  is there another way where we can point to the patches in the
> > SRC_URI itself
> >
> > Something similar to
> >
> > SRC_URI= "git:git.fredesktop.org/project/repo.git;protocol=git \
> >
> > http://patchwork.freedesktop/project/repo/12345/raw;protocol=http \ "
> > Are there any examples of such reciepes Please help
> 
> Nikhil,
> 
> It's not recommended, but it was always possible. Here's an old example
> from OE Classic, as I couldn't find any recent one:
> 
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded/tree/recipes/busybox/busybox_
> 1.7.2.bb
> 
Thanks for this info, it would really help

> We moved away from that practice, as upstream used to constantly tweak
> and change patches, breaking the build all the time. Having patches in
> metadata gives more control, as updating patches, their checksums and
> making sure the build doesn't break can be done at the same time.
> 
I understand the cons here
This is mostly for my experiments where I want to apply patches from patchwork
To try out some things
It's easy to just provide link than to download and add in the recipe

Thank you

> --
> Denys