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authorrillig <rillig>2007-06-15 10:26:53 +0000
committerrillig <rillig>2007-06-15 10:26:53 +0000
commit8dab57153668ccaaa9f811fe0d853c09188d3ebf (patch)
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downloadpkgsrc-8dab57153668ccaaa9f811fe0d853c09188d3ebf.tar.gz
Added a paragraph about the naming of the patch files.
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diff --git a/doc/guide/files/components.xml b/doc/guide/files/components.xml
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $NetBSD: components.xml,v 1.35 2007/06/01 11:07:24 rillig Exp $ -->
+<!-- $NetBSD: components.xml,v 1.36 2007/06/15 10:26:53 rillig Exp $ -->
<chapter id="components"> <?dbhtml filename="components.html"?>
<title>Package components - files, directories and contents</title>
@@ -297,6 +297,9 @@ converters games mbone print x11
and usually makes it possible to remove the patch in future
version.</para>
+ <para>The file names of the patch files are usually of the form
+ <filename>patch-<replaceable>[a-z][a-z]</replaceable></filename>.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="components.patches.sources">
<title>Sources where the patch files come from</title>