[bitbake-devel] what means "this=ignored" in the context of SRC_URI/patch?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  the current bitbake manual, in section 3.2, "Local file fetcher",
has an example of:

  SRC_URI= "file://relativefile.patch;this=ignored"

i've poked around and checked logs and i have no idea what
"this=ignored" means.  is it an earlier equivalent of "apply=no"?
i've never run across it being used anywhere.

  and while we're on the topic, i'm assuming adding "apply=yes" is
utterly redundant, yes?  even though there are a bunch of them
sprinkled throughout some recipes in oe-core.

rday

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