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Subject: Re: patches can be either ".patch" or ".diff" files, yes?
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On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Burton, Ross wrote:

> On 18 July 2014 19:58, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >  not sure where i saw this recently (i'll track it down), but some OE
> > or yocto doc claimed that patch files *must* be suffixed with
> > ".patch". i'm pretty sure it can be either .patch or .diff, correct?
> > as in, it's perfectly valid to do this in a .bbappend file:
> >
> >      SRC_URI += "file://0001-first-change.patch"
> >      SRC_URI += "file://0002-first-change.patch"
> >      SRC_URI += "file://0003-first-change.diff"
> >
> > as long as the filenames match, of course. yes?
>
> For a file to be handled automatically as a patch it must be .diff
> or .patch, and it appears that it can be optionally compressed
> (identifying extensions being .Z .gz .bz2), so foo.patch and
> bar.diff.gz are both automatically applied patches.

  quite so, i just noticed that in patch.bbclass, good to know.

rday

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