[oe] patch 2.6 rejects relative paths

[Tom Rini]

On 03/29/2011 04:31 AM, Elena Vengerova wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have patch 2.6.1 on my Fedora.
> I've found out that it rejects patches like
> recipes/tcltk/tcl-8.5.8/mips-tclstrtod.patch with relative paths:
> 
> --- ../generic/tclStrToD.c.orig
> +++ ../generic/tclStrToD.c
> 
> I failed to find the reason, but my colleague said me (she was unsure)
> that it was security hole fix.
> Thus looks like it's no way to force patch behave like old one.
> 
> I wonder if some work around is possible (except patch downgrade) or
> it's necessary to fix the recipes.

What metadata are you using (and branch name)?  This should be fixed in
current openembedded.org master.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation