diff --git a/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py b/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
index 261d642..7b62b7e 100644
--- a/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
+++ b/poky/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
@@ -474,7 +474,11 @@
                 destpth = os.path.join(srctree, relpth, fn)
                 if os.path.exists(destpth):
                     os.unlink(destpth)
-                os.symlink('oe-local-files/%s' % fn, destpth)
+                if relpth != '.':
+                    back_relpth = os.path.relpath(local_files_dir, root)
+                    os.symlink('%s/oe-local-files/%s/%s' % (back_relpth, relpth, fn), destpth)
+                else:
+                    os.symlink('oe-local-files/%s' % fn, destpth)
                 addfiles.append(os.path.join(relpth, fn))
         if addfiles:
             bb.process.run('git add %s' % ' '.join(addfiles), cwd=srctree)
@@ -589,6 +593,16 @@
             else:
                 task = 'do_patch'
 
+                if 'noexec' in (d.getVarFlags(task, False) or []) or 'task' not in (d.getVarFlags(task, False) or []):
+                    logger.info('The %s recipe has %s disabled. Running only '
+                                       'do_configure task dependencies' % (pn, task))
+
+                    if 'depends' in d.getVarFlags('do_configure', False):
+                        pn = d.getVarFlags('do_configure', False)['depends']
+                        pn = pn.replace('${PV}', d.getVar('PV'))
+                        pn = pn.replace('${COMPILERDEP}', d.getVar('COMPILERDEP'))
+                        task = None
+
             # Run the fetch + unpack tasks
             res = tinfoil.build_targets(pn,
                                         task,
@@ -600,6 +614,17 @@
         if not res:
             raise DevtoolError('Extracting source for %s failed' % pn)
 
+        if not is_kernel_yocto and ('noexec' in (d.getVarFlags('do_patch', False) or []) or 'task' not in (d.getVarFlags('do_patch', False) or [])):
+            workshareddir = d.getVar('S')
+            if os.path.islink(srctree):
+                os.unlink(srctree)
+
+            os.symlink(workshareddir, srctree)
+
+            # The initial_rev file is created in devtool_post_unpack function that will not be executed if
+            # do_unpack/do_patch tasks are disabled so we have to directly say that source extraction was successful
+            return True, True
+
         try:
             with open(os.path.join(tempdir, 'initial_rev'), 'r') as f:
                 initial_rev = f.read()
@@ -847,10 +872,11 @@
             if not initial_rev:
                 return 1
             logger.info('Source tree extracted to %s' % srctree)
-            # Get list of commits since this revision
-            (stdout, _) = bb.process.run('git rev-list --reverse %s..HEAD' % initial_rev, cwd=srctree)
-            commits = stdout.split()
-            check_commits = True
+            if os.path.exists(os.path.join(srctree, '.git')):
+                # Get list of commits since this revision
+                (stdout, _) = bb.process.run('git rev-list --reverse %s..HEAD' % initial_rev, cwd=srctree)
+                commits = stdout.split()
+                check_commits = True
         else:
             if os.path.exists(os.path.join(srctree, '.git')):
                 # Check if it's a tree previously extracted by us. This is done