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| author |   Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> | 2006-12-30 09:05:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> | 2006-12-30 09:05:22 +0000 |
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Start writing documentation on writing patchsets.
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diff --git a/doc/writing.docbook b/doc/writing.docbook index 96790fb..f33b293 100644 --- a/doc/writing.docbook +++ b/doc/writing.docbook @@ -2,6 +2,23 @@ <title>Writing Patchsets</title> <para> +This chapter will try to cover all the needed knowledge to write a new +patchset for autoepatch, as well as to maintain the ones already +present in the distribution. </para> +<sect1 id="writingthescript"> +<title>The patchset's script</title> + +<para> +An autoepatch patchset consists at least of two atoms: a directory, +whose name is also the name of the patchset, and a bash script, inside +that directory, named the same way with ".sh" extension. That script +is the core of the patchset, as it will tell autoepatch where to find +the files to patch, what kind of patchset it is, and whether to fail +or not if the patching is not completed as intended. +</para> + +</sect1> + </chapter> |