[yocto] bitbake: git and patch problem

[EXTERNAL van Riel Rob (ENTER, BT-CO/ENG1.1)]

> From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday at crashcourse.ca]
> Sent: maandag 5 maart 2018 12:13
> Subject: Re: [yocto] bitbake: git and patch problem
> 
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, EXTERNAL van Riel Rob (ENTER, BT-CO/ENG1.1) wrote:
> 
> > I'm experiencing strange (at least to my eyes) behaviour from bitbake.
> > My recipe specifies a git repository as the main SRC_URI, then, in a
> > variant created using an append file adds a patch like
> > this:
> >
> > SRC_URI_append_mystuff += "file://mystuff.patch"
> 
>   pretty sure you don't need both "_append" and "+=" in the same assignment.

Agreed, but you know how it goes: you get handed a system with a long history, you need to expand it, so you follow whatever conventions are in place unless they bite you.
I ran a test with the patch lumped directly into SRC_URI, and the result was identical with this:
SRC_URI += "file://mystuff.patch"

Rob