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+# Copyright (C) 2006  OpenedHand LTD
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+# Point to an empty file so any user's custom settings don't break things
+QUILTRCFILE ?= "${STAGING_ETCDIR_NATIVE}/quiltrc"
+
+PATCHDEPENDENCY = "${PATCHTOOL}-native:do_populate_sysroot"
+
+# There is a bug in patch 2.7.3 and earlier where index lines
+# in patches can change file modes when they shouldn't:
+# http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/patch/?id=82b800c9552a088a241457948219d25ce0a407a4
+# This leaks into debug sources in particular. Add the dependency
+# to target recipes to avoid this problem until we can rely on 2.7.4 or later.
+PATCHDEPENDENCY:append:class-target = " patch-replacement-native:do_populate_sysroot"
+
+PATCH_GIT_USER_NAME ?= "OpenEmbedded"
+PATCH_GIT_USER_EMAIL ?= "oe.patch@oe"
+
+inherit terminal
+
+python () {
+    if d.getVar('PATCHTOOL') == 'git' and d.getVar('PATCH_COMMIT_FUNCTIONS') == '1':
+        extratasks = bb.build.tasksbetween('do_unpack', 'do_patch', d)
+        try:
+            extratasks.remove('do_unpack')
+        except ValueError:
+            # For some recipes do_unpack doesn't exist, ignore it
+            pass
+
+        d.appendVarFlag('do_patch', 'prefuncs', ' patch_task_patch_prefunc')
+        for task in extratasks:
+            d.appendVarFlag(task, 'postfuncs', ' patch_task_postfunc')
+}
+
+python patch_task_patch_prefunc() {
+    # Prefunc for do_patch
+    srcsubdir = d.getVar('S')
+
+    workdir = os.path.abspath(d.getVar('WORKDIR'))
+    testsrcdir = os.path.abspath(srcsubdir)
+    if (testsrcdir + os.sep).startswith(workdir + os.sep):
+        # Double-check that either workdir or S or some directory in-between is a git repository
+        found = False
+        while testsrcdir != workdir:
+            if os.path.exists(os.path.join(testsrcdir, '.git')):
+                found = True
+                break
+            if testsrcdir == workdir:
+                break
+            testsrcdir = os.path.dirname(testsrcdir)
+        if not found:
+            bb.fatal('PATCHTOOL = "git" set for source tree that is not a git repository. Refusing to continue as that may result in commits being made in your metadata repository.')
+
+    patchdir = os.path.join(srcsubdir, 'patches')
+    if os.path.exists(patchdir):
+        if os.listdir(patchdir):
+            d.setVar('PATCH_HAS_PATCHES_DIR', '1')
+        else:
+            os.rmdir(patchdir)
+}
+
+python patch_task_postfunc() {
+    # Prefunc for task functions between do_unpack and do_patch
+    import oe.patch
+    import shutil
+    func = d.getVar('BB_RUNTASK')
+    srcsubdir = d.getVar('S')
+
+    if os.path.exists(srcsubdir):
+        if func == 'do_patch':
+            haspatches = (d.getVar('PATCH_HAS_PATCHES_DIR') == '1')
+            patchdir = os.path.join(srcsubdir, 'patches')
+            if os.path.exists(patchdir):
+                shutil.rmtree(patchdir)
+                if haspatches:
+                    stdout, _ = bb.process.run('git status --porcelain patches', cwd=srcsubdir)
+                    if stdout:
+                        bb.process.run('git checkout patches', cwd=srcsubdir)
+        stdout, _ = bb.process.run('git status --porcelain .', cwd=srcsubdir)
+        if stdout:
+            useroptions = []
+            oe.patch.GitApplyTree.gitCommandUserOptions(useroptions, d=d)
+            bb.process.run('git add .; git %s commit -a -m "Committing changes from %s\n\n%s"' % (' '.join(useroptions), func, oe.patch.GitApplyTree.ignore_commit_prefix + ' - from %s' % func), cwd=srcsubdir)
+}
+
+def src_patches(d, all=False, expand=True):
+    import oe.patch
+    return oe.patch.src_patches(d, all, expand)
+
+def should_apply(parm, d):
+    """Determine if we should apply the given patch"""
+    import oe.patch
+    return oe.patch.should_apply(parm, d)
+
+should_apply[vardepsexclude] = "DATE SRCDATE"
+
+python patch_do_patch() {
+    import oe.patch
+
+    patchsetmap = {
+        "patch": oe.patch.PatchTree,
+        "quilt": oe.patch.QuiltTree,
+        "git": oe.patch.GitApplyTree,
+    }
+
+    cls = patchsetmap[d.getVar('PATCHTOOL') or 'quilt']
+
+    resolvermap = {
+        "noop": oe.patch.NOOPResolver,
+        "user": oe.patch.UserResolver,
+    }
+
+    rcls = resolvermap[d.getVar('PATCHRESOLVE') or 'user']
+
+    classes = {}
+
+    s = d.getVar('S')
+
+    os.putenv('PATH', d.getVar('PATH'))
+
+    # We must use one TMPDIR per process so that the "patch" processes
+    # don't generate the same temp file name.
+
+    import tempfile
+    process_tmpdir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+    os.environ['TMPDIR'] = process_tmpdir
+
+    for patch in src_patches(d):
+        _, _, local, _, _, parm = bb.fetch.decodeurl(patch)
+
+        if "patchdir" in parm:
+            patchdir = parm["patchdir"]
+            if not os.path.isabs(patchdir):
+                patchdir = os.path.join(s, patchdir)
+            if not os.path.isdir(patchdir):
+                bb.fatal("Target directory '%s' not found, patchdir '%s' is incorrect in patch file '%s'" %
+                    (patchdir, parm["patchdir"], parm['patchname']))
+        else:
+            patchdir = s
+
+        if not patchdir in classes:
+            patchset = cls(patchdir, d)
+            resolver = rcls(patchset, oe_terminal)
+            classes[patchdir] = (patchset, resolver)
+            patchset.Clean()
+        else:
+            patchset, resolver = classes[patchdir]
+
+        bb.note("Applying patch '%s' (%s)" % (parm['patchname'], oe.path.format_display(local, d)))
+        try:
+            patchset.Import({"file":local, "strippath": parm['striplevel']}, True)
+        except Exception as exc:
+            bb.utils.remove(process_tmpdir, True)
+            bb.fatal("Importing patch '%s' with striplevel '%s'\n%s" % (parm['patchname'], parm['striplevel'], repr(exc).replace("\\n", "\n")))
+        try:
+            resolver.Resolve()
+        except bb.BBHandledException as e:
+            bb.utils.remove(process_tmpdir, True)
+            bb.fatal("Applying patch '%s' on target directory '%s'\n%s" % (parm['patchname'], patchdir, repr(e).replace("\\n", "\n")))
+
+    bb.utils.remove(process_tmpdir, True)
+    del os.environ['TMPDIR']
+}
+patch_do_patch[vardepsexclude] = "PATCHRESOLVE"
+
+addtask patch after do_unpack
+do_patch[dirs] = "${WORKDIR}"
+do_patch[depends] = "${PATCHDEPENDENCY}"
+
+EXPORT_FUNCTIONS do_patch