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@@ -282,12 +282,18 @@ Here is the general procedure on how to create patches to be sent through email:
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Validating Patches with Patchtest
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-``patchtest`` is available in ``openembedded-core`` as a tool for making sure
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-that your patches are well-formatted and contain important info for
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+``patchtest`` is available in ``openembedded-core`` as a tool for making
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+sure that your patches are well-formatted and contain important info for
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maintenance purposes, such as ``Signed-off-by`` and ``Upstream-Status``
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-tags. Once you have generated the patch files and run ``source
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-oe-init-build-env`` to initialize your workspace, you can run ``patchtest``
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-like so::
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+tags. Currently, it only supports testing patches for
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+``openembedded-core`` branches. To setup, perform the following::
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+ pip install -r meta/lib/patchtest/requirements.txt
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+ source oe-init-build-env
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+ bitbake-layers add-layer ../meta-selftest
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+Once these steps are complete and you have generated your patch files,
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+you can run ``patchtest`` like so::
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patchtest --patch <patch_name>
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