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ref-manual: fix patch documentation

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The do_patch implementation does not apply patches from an entry in
SRC_URI pointing to a directory.
Remove the claim that this is implemented.

(From yocto-docs rev: 3061d3d62054a5c3b9e16bfce4bcd186fa7a23d2)

Signed-off-by: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Max Krummenacher
2022-01-03 20:50:50 +01:00
committed by Richard Purdie
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@@ -326,21 +326,19 @@ file as a patch file::
file://file;apply=yes \
"
Conversely, if you have a directory full of patch files and you want to
exclude some so that the ``do_patch`` task does not apply them during
the patch phase, you can use the "apply=no" parameter with the
Conversely, if you have a file whose file type is ``.patch`` or ``.diff``
and you want to exclude it so that the ``do_patch`` task does not apply
it during the patch phase, you can use the "apply=no" parameter with the
:term:`SRC_URI` statement::
SRC_URI = " \
git://path_to_repo/some_package \
file://path_to_lots_of_patch_files \
file://path_to_lots_of_patch_files/patch_file5;apply=no \
file://file1.patch \
file://file2.patch;apply=no \
"
In the
previous example, assuming all the files in the directory holding the
patch files end with either ``.patch`` or ``.diff``, every file would be
applied as a patch by default except for the ``patch_file5`` patch.
In the previous example ``file1.patch`` would be applied as a patch by default
while ``file2.patch`` would not be applied.
You can find out more about the patching process in the
":ref:`overview-manual/concepts:patching`" section in