| 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE section [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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| 6 | <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng"
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| 7 | xml:id="ch-system-patch" xreflabel="Patch" role="wrap">
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| 8 | <title>Patch-&patch-version;</title>
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="patch.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-patch"><primary sortas="a-Patch">Patch</primary></indexterm>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <section role="package"><title/>
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| 14 | <para>The Patch package contains a program for modifying files.</para>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <segmentedlist>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 19 | <seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>1.9 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 20 | </segmentedlist>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <segmentedlist>
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| 23 | <segtitle>Patch installation depends on</segtitle>
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| 24 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
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| 25 | GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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| 26 | </segmentedlist>
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| 27 | </section>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <section role="installation">
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| 30 | <title>Installation of Patch</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>Prepare Patch for compilation (the preprocessor flag
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| 33 | <parameter>-D_GNU_SOURCE</parameter> is only needed on PowerPCs, on other
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| 34 | machines you can leave it out):</para>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <screen><userinput>CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE ./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <para>Now install it:</para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | </section>
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| 47 |
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <section xml:id="contents-patch" role="content"><title>Contents of Patch</title>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <segmentedlist>
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| 52 | <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
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| 53 | <seglistitem><seg>patch</seg></seglistitem>
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| 54 | </segmentedlist>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | <variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <varlistentry xml:id="patch">
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| 59 | <term><command>patch</command></term>
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| 60 | <listitem>
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| 61 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-patch patch"><primary sortas="b-patch">patch</primary></indexterm>
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| 62 | <para>modifies files according to a patch file.
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| 63 | A patch file normally is a difference listing created with the <command>diff</command> program.
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| 64 | By applying these differences to the original files, <command>patch</command> creates the patched
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| 65 | versions. Using patches instead of entirely new tarballs to keep your sources
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| 66 | up-to-date can save you a lot of download time.</para>
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| 67 | </listitem>
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| 68 | </varlistentry>
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| 69 | </variablelist>
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| 70 |
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| 71 | </section>
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| 72 |
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| 73 | </section>
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