Bug 8278

Summary: devtool: update compressed patches gracefully
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Markus Lehtonen <markus.lehtonen>
Component: devtools / tool chainAssignee: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 2.3   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Markus Lehtonen 2015-09-10 13:16:02 UTC 
Currently, devtool update-recipe crashes if the update would touch compressed patch files. That is, if the recipe contains compressed patches (e.g. foo.patch.gz) and the user would modify the commit corresponding that patch (or any earlier patch in the patchset causing foo.patch to be updated). Also, devtool is not able to remove compressed patches from the recipe.

The solution is probably just to use the uncompressed file names/paths when dealing with the files in devtool.