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Paul Kleeberg wrote:
> Could anyone direct me to instructions on how to build a patch file
> for the totally clueless?
I don't have any handy URLs, but I can try and give you a brief example of
how to do this.
> I want to be able to modify the way all the english html pages appear
> (which I did successfully once) but I would like to do it as a patch
> so it is easy to redo as necessary.
As with all things *nix, there are several ways to do it. If you are going
to be modifying many files, I prefer to create two copies of the directory
containing the modified files. In the case of mailman, I would have
mailman-orig and mailman. Make the changes you want to make in the mailman
directory and then use diff:
[user@host tmp]# diff -uNr mailman-orig mailman > /path/to/mailman.patch
The diff options are:
-u unified output format
-N In directory comparison, if a file is found in only one directory,
treat it as present but empty in the other directory.
-r recursively compare any subdirectories
To apply this patch to another mailman install, you would cd into the
mailman directory use patch:
[user@host mailman]# patch -p1 < /path/to/mailman.patch
The -p1 tells patch to strip off the first part of the directory info stored
in the patch file, which is what you want if you've created a recursive diff
as I did above.
Check the diff and patch manpages for more details.
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