From 62c57ccac1384f5fc6e7354e9d491a2c2c2f69a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Robert P. J. Day" Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 04:45:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] overview-manual: mention that patch files can be compressed Ensure the reader understands that patch files can be compressed. (From yocto-docs rev: 39c5dff022620818bbbfeb4ad10f0f9e5b1e8d35) Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard (cherry picked from commit a1070100ecdf600ca9468a4115f9f9a1bf94f448) Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard Signed-off-by: Paul Barker --- documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst b/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst index aa7bab782a..d1c3b166d6 100644 --- a/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst +++ b/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst @@ -779,7 +779,8 @@ and the :term:`FILESPATH` variable to locate applicable patch files. Default processing for patch files assumes the files have either -``*.patch`` or ``*.diff`` file types. You can use :term:`SRC_URI` parameters +``*.patch`` or ``*.diff`` file types (or a compressed form of those +file types). You can use :term:`SRC_URI` parameters to change the way the build system recognizes patch files. See the :ref:`ref-tasks-patch` task for more information.