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[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > > > On 7/17/2009 at 10:03, Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > > >         
> > Hi, where can I find info on creating patch files for use with osc?
> >     
>
> Dave,
>
> It's the typical patch files created using diff and applied using patch.
> What I normally do:
>
> tar xf foo-1.0.tar.bz2 (extracts in the folder foo-1.0)
> cp -r foo-1.0 foo-1.0.patched
>
> change all the things needed for my patch in foo-1.0.patched
>
> then
> diff -urN foo-1.0 foo-1.0.patched > foo-1.0.patch
>
> The so created patch can be used in a spec file with
> %patch -p1
>
> hope this helps you a bit.
> Dominique
>
>
>
>   
Thanks Dominique, I had everything right except for the u and N in diff
-urN, I will scour the man page for a better explanation of those
options but the format matches other patch files now.
Thanks
Dave P
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