[OE-core] [PATCH] lib/oe/patch: Use force option when creating symlinks to patches

[Saul Wold]

On 12/14/2012 09:21 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Under the scenario where you have an existing source tree and you then
> change one of the patches, maybe to be architecture or machine specific,
> then rebuild, the build will fail since the symlink already exists
> but should now point at a different file.
>
> The easiest fix is to tell the system to remove and recreate the link
> which is done with the force option.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com>

> ---
> diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/patch.py b/meta/lib/oe/patch.py
> index bc86bb5..7ab74fa 100644
> --- a/meta/lib/oe/patch.py
> +++ b/meta/lib/oe/patch.py
> @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ class QuiltTree(PatchSet):
>           if not self.initialized:
>               self.InitFromDir()
>           PatchSet.Import(self, patch, force)
> -        oe.path.symlink(patch["file"], self._quiltpatchpath(patch["file"]))
> +        oe.path.symlink(patch["file"], self._quiltpatchpath(patch["file"]), force=True)
>           f = open(os.path.join(self.dir, "patches","series"), "a");
>           f.write(os.path.basename(patch["file"]) + " -p" + patch["strippath"]+"\n")
>           f.close()
>
>
>
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