[oe] [RFC] patch file location

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/6/22 Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org>:
> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 09:03 +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>> Frankly speaking I have no clue at all which version of the patch will
>> be used by the 2.10.1 recipe. The only ways to find out is to study
>> the class code that does the patch or to actually build the package
>> (in the hope it selects the patch in a deterministic way). I don't
>> think it is good that if someone is debugging a problem that they
>> should have such a hard time to find out what version of a file is
>> actually used
>
> See glibc_2.10.1.bb:
>
> FILESPATHPKG =. "glibc-2.4:"
>
> So, the answer is that it will use the version from the glibc-2.4
> directory.
>
> I think the semantics of FILESPATHPKG are documented in the manual.  If
> they're not, that is an oversight and should indeed be corrected.

Couldn't find it and googling for
site:docs.openembedded.org FILESPATHPKG
did not return any results

FM
>
>> (optionally we might allow for a mechanism that allows specifying
>> patches for higher level recipes; e.g. glibc_2.10.1 could look in
>> glibc-2.10.1, glibc-2.10, glibc-2, glibc and files).
>
> You can already do this with a suitable FILESPATHPKG setting, I think.
>
> p.
>
>
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