.\"	$NetBSD: mkpatches.1,v 1.1.1.1 2000/06/28 01:42:43 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 by Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org>
.\" All Rights Reserved.  Absolutely no warranty.
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.Dd June 25, 2000
.Dt mkpatches
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mkpatches
.Nd create patch files appropriate for pkgsrc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl d Ar output-directory
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a perl script that simplifies creating patches from a changed work
tree if for each changed file the original was kept with an added
extension '.orig'.

.Nm
must be called from the package's main directory, that is
$PKGSRC/category/program. It then proceeds to find all files that
match the pattern '*.orig'. Each of these is then compared to the
changed file of the same name (with no '.orig' extension) using
.Xr pkgdiff 1 .

The resulting patches are saved in the directory $WRKDIR/.newpatches
or the directory specified after
.Fl d ,
and can be easily compared to the currently existing set using
.Xr patchdiff 1 .
.Pp
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr patchdiff 1 ,
.Xr pkgdiff 1