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This is the makepatch package, containing a pair of programs to assist
in the generation and application of patch kits to synchronise source
trees.

INTRODUCTION

Traditionally, source trees are updated with the 'patch' program,
processing patch information that is generated by the 'diff' program.
Although 'diff' and 'patch' do a very good job at patching file
contents, most versions do not handle creating and deleting files and
directories, and adjusting of file modes and time stamps. Newer
versions of 'diff' and 'patch' seem to be able to create files, and

makepatch.spec  view on Meta::CPAN

Requires: perl >= 5.004
#Prereq: 
Prefix: /usr/bin
Packager: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
Vendor: Squirrel Consultancy, Exloo, The Netherlands
BuildArch: noarch
BuildRoot: /var/tmp/makepatch-buildroot

%description
This is the makepatch package, containing a pair of programs to assist
in the generation and application of patch kits to synchronise source
trees.

The makepatch package contains two programs, both written in Perl:
'makepatch' and 'applypatch'.

'makepatch' will generate a patch kit from two source trees. 
It traverses the source directory and runs a 'diff' on each pair of
corresponding files, accumulating the output into a patch kit. It
knows about the conventions for patch kits: if a file named
patchlevel.h exists, it is handled first, so 'patch' can check the