From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tx2outboundpool.messaging.microsoft.com (tx2ehsobe001.messaging.microsoft.com [65.55.88.11]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144C3E00AFC for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:37:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail38-tx2-R.bigfish.com (10.9.14.248) by TX2EHSOBE004.bigfish.com (10.9.40.24) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.225.23; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:37:29 +0000 Received: from mail38-tx2 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail38-tx2-R.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF9F200E9 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:37:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:160.33.194.231; KIP:(null); UIP:(null); IPV:NLI; H:usculsndmail04v.am.sony.com; RD:mail04.sonyusa.com; EFVD:NLI X-SpamScore: -3 X-BigFish: VPS-3(zzbb2dI98dI9371Izz1f42h1fc6h1ee6h1de0h1fdah1202h1e76h1d1ah1d2ahzzz2fh2a8h668h839h93fhd25hf0ah1288h12a5h12a9h12bdh137ah13b6h1441h1504h1537h153bh162dh1631h1758h1765h18e1h190ch1946h19b4h19c3h1b0ah1155h) Received-SPF: pass (mail38-tx2: domain of am.sony.com designates 160.33.194.231 as permitted sender) client-ip=160.33.194.231; envelope-from=tim.bird@am.sony.com; helo=usculsndmail04v.am.sony.com ; .am.sony.com ; Received: from mail38-tx2 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail38-tx2 (MessageSwitch) id 1365529047133711_3426; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:37:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from TX2EHSMHS041.bigfish.com (unknown [10.9.14.238]) by mail38-tx2.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD0240004D for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:37:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from usculsndmail04v.am.sony.com (160.33.194.231) by TX2EHSMHS041.bigfish.com (10.9.99.141) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.225.23; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:37:26 +0000 Received: from usculsndmail12v.am.sony.com (usculsndmail12v.am.sony.com [146.215.230.103]) by usculsndmail04v.am.sony.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id r39HbP4T025653 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:37:25 GMT Received: from mail1x.sgo.in.sel.sony.com (mail4.bc.in.sel.sony.com [43.130.1.112]) by usculsndmail12v.am.sony.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id r39HbN5L016538 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:37:25 GMT Received: from [43.135.148.222] ([43.135.148.222]) by mail1x.sgo.in.sel.sony.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id r39HbMES015748 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:37:22 GMT Message-ID: <516452DF.3050605@am.sony.com> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:41:51 -0700 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: In-Reply-To: X-OriginatorOrg: am.sony.com Subject: Patch version gotchas (was Re: i think the list of "required software" needs to be clarified) X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:37:30 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 04/09/2013 06:10 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > SANITY_REQUIRED_UTILITIES ?= "patch diffstat makeinfo git bzip2 tar > gzip gawk chrpath wget cpio" This is just a generic warning on the subject of native patch. We recently had a discussion on the LTSI-dev mailing list about patch. It seems that some patches produced by git now require a later version of patch than was shipped in relatively recent platforms(e.g. Ubuntu 12.04 shipped with patch 2.6.1) Based on this, at Sony we intended to switch over to patch 2.7 (which has explicit support for "diff --git" format) Unfortunately, we found that some of our patches were not compatible with this version of patch, and thus found ourselves in a pickle. We now have to switch between patch versions, depending on the project and set of patches we're working on. ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment =============================