[oe] [Openembedded-users] Problem with patch version 2.6.1-7 and after

[Tom Rini]

On 03/16/2011 10:08 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 03/16/2011 07:03 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote:
>
> [snip]
>> Hi,
>>
>> ### Forwarded to openembedded-devel ###
>>
>> We are using Fedora14. That is using patch 2.6.1-8.
>>
>> The -8 release includes the following patches to patch.
>> Patch1: patch-2.5.4-sigsegv.patch
>> Patch2: patch-get-arg.patch
>> Patch3: patch-CVE-2010-4651.patch
>> Patch100: patch-selinux.patch
>>
>> I think one of those fixes a security issue in patch where ".." in
>> path names were allowed. With this version of patch (which I assume
>> will become standard ?) the OpenEmbedded fails.
>> Any ideas on a way to get around this (ideally without using a
>> different patch version :) )
>
> So, there's a lot of recipes with patches with .. in the path:
> openembedded$ git grep -lE "^---.*[^.]\.\.\/" recipes/ | wc -l
> 80
>
> Some of these will be easy fixups (first one I peeked at we can just
> change the patch and not have to modify the recipe) but others like the
> tcl one will require a little thought.

Everything should be happy now.

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation