ref-manual: Added a link to the patching section in the SRC_URI variable

The file:// protocol is primarily used for digging out patch files that
are local with the metadata (layer).  I put a link in the paragraph that
is talking about them to the "Patching" section in the overview-manual.

(From yocto-docs rev: 18a7b4b81d192fb2cfd96763de4cfabd61c3a0ea)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
index 0e3b6bd3be..933edcf6e1 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -13079,7 +13079,9 @@ recipes-graphics/xorg-font/font-alias_1.0.3.bb:PR = "${INC_PR}.3"
                             Fetches files, which are usually files shipped with
                             the
                             <link linkend='metadata'>Metadata</link>,
-                            from the local machine.
+                            from the local machine (e.g.
+                            <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_OM_URL;#patching-dev-environment'>patch</ulink>
+                            files).
                             The path is relative to the
                             <link linkend='var-FILESPATH'><filename>FILESPATH</filename></link>
                             variable.