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From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: "Andreas Müller" <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: do_patch and binary patches
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:24:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1578169.W0gr9jI3si@helios> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALbNGRROB7mqTpQr=K-HUotmQx2RhCJ-Cnf=BsmSj_W6svWj6Q@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Andreas,

On Wednesday 04 September 2013 13:44:32 Andreas Müller wrote:
> did not find any helpful hint - and cannot remember somebody asked
> already: Is there a specific reason why our do_patch ignores binary
> files - or is there a way to allow binary files in patches?

I don't have any specific knowledge about this limitation, and I see you've 
worked around it in the mean time; but maybe this is because quilt doesn't 
(didn't?) support patching binary files. You could try setting PATCHTOOL = 
"patch" instead.

Cheers,
Paul

-- 

Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre


      reply	other threads:[~2013-09-23 14:24 UTC|newest]

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2013-09-04 11:44 do_patch and binary patches Andreas Müller
2013-09-23 14:24 ` Paul Eggleton [this message]

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