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

[Ludovic Desroches]

Hello,

On 3/16/2011 8:22 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting the error:
>
> NOTE: Applying patch 'arm-thumb-mutex_db5.patch' 
> (openembedded/recipes/db/db-5.1.19/arm-thumb-mutex_db5.patch)
> ERROR: Execution of 'quilt 
> --quiltrc=/scratch/OpenEmbeddedNew/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin/quiltrc 
> push' failed with exit code 1:
> Applying patch arm-thumb-mutex_db5.patch
> patch: **** rejecting target file name with ".." component: 
> ../src/dbinc/mutex_int.h
> Patch arm-thumb-mutex_db5.patch does not apply (enforce with -f)
>
> ERROR: Function 'patch_do_patch' failed

I have no problem to apply the patch manually or running bitbake 
db-5.1.19. I am using the latest bitbake release and the 2011.03 oe release.

>
> This appears to be due to a security enhancement made to the patch 
> utility
> relatively recently. 
I have updated my patch utility we the latest release, not version on 
the alpha ftp :

$ bitbake db-5.1.19
...
Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION        = "1.12.0"
METADATA_BRANCH   = "2011.03_atmel"
METADATA_REVISION = "8c6a371"
TARGET_ARCH       = "arm"
TARGET_OS         = "linux-gnueabi"
MACHINE           = "at91sam9m10g45"
DISTRO            = "angstrom"
DISTRO_VERSION    = "v20110316"
TARGET_FPU        = "soft"

NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
NOTE: Preparing runqueue
NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks
...
NOTE: package db-5.1.19-r1: task do_patch: Started
NOTE: package db-5.1.19-r1: task do_patch: Succeeded
NOTE: Running task 721 of 732 (ID: 11, 
/local/users/ldesroch/workspace/openembedded/openembedded/recipes/db/db_5.1.19.bb, 
do_configure)
...

ldesroch at RFOLXTS02:openembedded (master)$ patch --version
patch 2.6.1

> Is there a known clean way of fixing this and where
> should I report the bug ?
>
You should use the openembedded-devel list. I think you will have more 
answers.


Regards

Ludovic Desroches