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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2015-01-19 10:06:09 -0800
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2015-02-17 15:16:51 +0000
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dev-manual: Updated text to indicate patch files can end differently
Patch files can end with compressed suffixes such as diff.gz and patch.bz2. Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> (From yocto-docs rev: 69993710d1466dddc804c33c1d76f46d0982d28f) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -1885,8 +1885,11 @@
1885 1885
1886 <para> 1886 <para>
1887 The previous example also specifies a patch file. 1887 The previous example also specifies a patch file.
1888 Patch files are files whose names end in 1888 Patch files are files whose names usually end in
1889 <filename>.patch</filename> or <filename>.diff</filename>. 1889 <filename>.patch</filename> or <filename>.diff</filename> but
1890 can end with compressed suffixes such as
1891 <filename>diff.gz</filename> and
1892 <filename>patch.bz2</filename>, for example.
1890 The build system automatically applies patches as described 1893 The build system automatically applies patches as described
1891 in the 1894 in the
1892 "<link linkend='new-recipe-patching-code'>Patching Code</link>" section. 1895 "<link linkend='new-recipe-patching-code'>Patching Code</link>" section.