I made the patch file with the exact two files I'm trying to patch:

diff -u ../../../isar-cip-core/recipes-initramfs/initramfs-crypt-hook/files/encrypt_partitions.script encrypt_partitions.script > encrypt_partitions.script.patch


On Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 6:43 AM Uladzimir Bely <ubely@ilbers.de> wrote:
On Mon, 2025-01-20 at 04:57 -0600, Stephen Ecker wrote:
> Bb shows the directories in which it looked for the patch file... It
> found that.  It's the file to patch that quilt can't find: 
>
> NOTE: Applying patch 'something.patch' (../meta-something/recipes-
> core/recipe-name/files/something.patch)
> ....
> can't find file to patch at input line 3
> perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? 
>

This looks not related to Isar or bitbake. Your patch simply doesn't
fit sources you want to apply it to.

> ...
>
> It does not show the directories in which it tried to find the target
> file 
>
> Maybe you could provide me an example patch file? 
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 2:31 AM Uladzimir Bely <ubely@ilbers.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2025-01-19 at 09:32 -0800, Stephen Ecker wrote:
> > > I'm not certain if this is isar specific or just bitbake:  I have
> > > a
> > > patch file I've added to my layer but my build keeps erroring
> > > stating
> > > that it can't find the file to patch.  the target file is in a
> > > recipe
> > > of the same name but in a different layer.  to where should the
> > > patch
> > > file point in its second line?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> >
> > Hello.
> > If you have some <recipe>.bb in some layer and <files/your.patch>
> > for
> > it in your layer, you should also create in your layer
> > <recipe>.bbappend with the contents like:
> >
> > | FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
> > | SRC_URI:append = " \
> > |     file://your.patch \
> > | "
> >
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Best regards,
Uladzimir.



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