[oe] Patching from a file containing a compressed directory (<directory>.tar.bz2)

[Ulf Samuelsson]

2011-01-26 22:32, Ulf Samuelsson skrev:
>     Trying to change the at91 linux recipes.
>     The "experimental" patches to be added on top of the "maxim" patch
>     can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.at91.com/ and that file
>     is generated from a directory of patches, which should be applied
>     in alphabetical order.
>
>     When the "obvious" SRC_URI  is used:
>
>     ftp://ftp.at91.com/<directory>.tar.bz2;apply=yes \
>
>      the files do not get applied in alphabetical order.
>
>     It looks to me like they get applied in reverse order,  but I did 
> not check carefully.
>     I tried adding a "series" file, and recompress, but that failed as 
> well.
>
>     Any clue on how to get the patches applied in alphabetical order?
>
>     If the patches are in a subdirectory to the recipe, and applied 
> manually
>     everything is OK, but that seems to be a shame to have to resort 
> to that.
>
BTW: I figured out that I can avoid applying the file as a patch,
and just let the file be decompressed to ${WORKDIR}, and then
apply the patches manually in a "do_patch_prepend" function.

Drawback is that if there are working patches before this,
then they also need to be applied manually.

Seems strange that the patches are not applied in alphabetical order.

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Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson