[oe] patch 2.6 rejects relative paths

[Elena Vengerova]

On 29.03.2011 18:35, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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.
>
I use release-2011.03 (I hope).
Sorry, I'm new in OE, not sure what do you exactly mean by "metadata" 
(the term itself is bit ambiguous).
I'm trying to build meta-toolchain recipe with local config almost same 
as sample one.

Nice to hear that it's fixed.

Thanks a lot,
     Elena