From 303376199b786480c916674b45ef974c08b375a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:26:53 +0000
Subject: Added a paragraph about the naming of the patch files.

---
 doc/guide/files/components.xml | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guide/files/components.xml b/doc/guide/files/components.xml
index 297a931eba4..7e37e54dcf9 100644
--- a/doc/guide/files/components.xml
+++ b/doc/guide/files/components.xml
@@ -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>
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