Help patching rest_dbus.py

[Brad Bishop]

> On Jul 17, 2018, at 2:10 PM, guhan balasubramanian <guhan.sac at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are trying to make some custom changes to the phosphor web application.

Can you describe what the custom changes are?  Maybe upstreaming your changes
is possible and you don’t need a bbappend at all.

> Since the web application is present in meta-phosphor, we were trying to patch the web application from our own meta layer. 
> 
> From the tmp/work/ directory, I was able to create a git patch for the rest_dbus.py file in phosphor-gevent and phosphor-rest. 
> 
> But since the source is not included directly, I get a quilt error saying that there is no file to patch. 
> 
> The web (bottle) application I see, is included through the following variable: 
> SYSTEMD_ENVIRONMENT_FILE_${PN} += "obmc/wsgi_app"
> 
> Can someone please help with what I am missing or the best way to go about this? 
> 
> -----
> bash-4.2$ tree phosphor-rest/
> phosphor-rest/
> ├── phosphor-rest
> │   └── 0001-rest-dbus-test.patch
> └── phosphor-rest.bbappend
> 
> 1 directory, 2 files
> bash-4.2$ cat phosphor-rest/phosphor-rest.bbappend 
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/phosphor-rest:"
> SRC_URI += " \
>      file://0001-rest-dbus-test.patch \
> "
> bash-4.2$ 
> -------
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Guhan