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authorbsiegert <bsiegert@pkgsrc.org>2014-11-28 12:11:24 +0000
committerbsiegert <bsiegert@pkgsrc.org>2014-11-28 12:11:24 +0000
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downloadpkgsrc-7325f319aa62f4c4b75b6a46e0aaf35ad5da1b00.tar.gz
Improve the wording of PATCHFILES and add PATCH_DIST_STRIP. Will regenerate
things later.
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-rw-r--r--doc/guide/files/components.xml11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guide/files/components.xml b/doc/guide/files/components.xml
index 125358a4da5..04efed41b9a 100644
--- a/doc/guide/files/components.xml
+++ b/doc/guide/files/components.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $NetBSD: components.xml,v 1.49 2014/10/09 13:46:57 wiz Exp $ -->
+<!-- $NetBSD: components.xml,v 1.50 2014/11/28 12:11:24 bsiegert Exp $ -->
<chapter id="components"> <?dbhtml filename="components.html"?>
<title>Package components - files, directories and contents</title>
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ converters games mbone print x11
<para>The second section contains information about separately
downloaded patches, if any.
<itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para><varname>PATCHFILES:</varname>
+ <listitem><para><varname>PATCHFILES</varname>:
Name(s) of additional files that contain distribution patches.
There is no default. pkgsrc will look for them at
<varname>PATCH_SITES</varname>.
@@ -81,7 +81,12 @@ converters games mbone print x11
</listitem>
<listitem><para><varname>PATCH_SITES</varname>:
Primary location(s) for distribution patch files (see
- <varname>PATCHFILES</varname> below) if not found locally.</para>
+ <varname>PATCHFILES</varname> above) if not found locally.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><para><varname>PATCH_DIST_STRIP</varname>:
+ an argument to &man.patch.1; that sets the pathname strip count to
+ help find the correct files to patch. It defaults to
+ <command>-p0</command>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
<para>The third section contains the following variables.