[Devil-linux-commit] build/docs/documentation documentation.xml,1.48,1.49

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Update of /cvsroot/devil-linux/build/docs/documentation
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Modified Files:
	documentation.xml 
Log Message:
added information about patching


Index: documentation.xml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/devil-linux/build/docs/documentation/documentation.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.48
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -d -r1.48 -r1.49
--- documentation.xml	25 Oct 2003 00:22:15 -0000	1.48
+++ documentation.xml	14 Nov 2003 01:43:27 -0000	1.49
@@ -871,6 +871,35 @@
         </caution></para>
     </sect1>
     <sect1>
+      <title>Your Modifications &amp; Patches</title>
+      <para>The Devil-Linux Develop Team and our Users really appreciate when you send in your patches, so they can be included in the next release.</para>
+      <sect2>
+        <title>Submitting Patches</title>
+        <para>Please create a "unified diff" and send it to our mailinglist with the subject <quote>[PATCH] short title</quote>. </para>
+        <para>Attach the patch file to the email, so that no formatting is lost. Please compress the file if it's more then a few hundret bytes.</para>
+        <para>Add a (short) description what you patch is doing. </para>
+        <para>If your patch required the some source package has to be put into the <filename>build/src/</filename> directory, then please write us all the necessary links into the email.</para>
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2>
+        <title>Creating Patches</title>
+        <para>If you're not familiar with patches, take a look at the <command>man</command> pages of <command>patch</command> and <command>diff</command>.</para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>copy the unchanged <filename>SCRIPT</filename> to <filename>SCRIPT.old</filename> </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>make your changes</para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>change into the <filename>build</filename> directory</para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>execute: <command>diff -u subdir/SCRIPT.old subdir/SCRIPT &gt; yourpatch.diff</command></para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </sect2>
+    </sect1>
+    <sect1>
       <title>The Build System</title>
       <sect2>
         <title>Directory structure</title>