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author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2015-01-19 10:06:09 -0800 |
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committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2015-02-17 15:16:51 +0000 |
commit | 6a6687d6d5cdd21e4eb150d78e2ba2874c817e2a (patch) | |
tree | 228d7ec44a8d07acd437e3b63090f2394c995a0d /documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml | |
parent | 3cd8d861abca27c050432b2e4ca2a3923a66d9dc (diff) | |
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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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diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml index 658919d..2319be1 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml @@ -1885,8 +1885,11 @@ <para> The previous example also specifies a patch file. - Patch files are files whose names end in - <filename>.patch</filename> or <filename>.diff</filename>. + Patch files are files whose names usually end in + <filename>.patch</filename> or <filename>.diff</filename> but + can end with compressed suffixes such as + <filename>diff.gz</filename> and + <filename>patch.bz2</filename>, for example. The build system automatically applies patches as described in the "<link linkend='new-recipe-patching-code'>Patching Code</link>" section. |