At 19:40 -0500 10-01-2003, Charlie Brady wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Nathan Price wrote:

 Thanks for the info about PreReq and Requires.  But, more on the patch
 files.

 Make a patch file containing your changes:

      diff -ruN BUILD/e-smith-pkg-0.3-{3,4} > \
 >        SOURCES/e-smith-pkgs.fixes.20000815001
 >
 I have read this howto before but, it doesn't explain how to make a patch
 file.
It doesn't "explain", but it does *show* you exactly how to do it.

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Nathan, in the example that you quote e-smith-pkgs.fixes.20000815001 _is_ the patch file. It is the output of the diff command redirected to a file.

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