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| author | Thomas Balu Walter <tw@itreff.de> | 2001-03-16 18:09:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Thomas Balu Walter <tw@itreff.de> | 2001-03-16 18:09:38 +0000 |
| commit | 7d90bd3ad9a841e20e060dab886397b6fc8c968e (patch) | |
| tree | 86972d95e26c031040babcde5fee49d543f17ae0 /appendixa/patch-desc.xml | |
| parent | aff91c471bc146b4ac83faec877ca0b4f71d2782 (diff) | |
Some more You-Fixes
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@331 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/appendixa/patch-desc.xml b/appendixa/patch-desc.xml index 410df67d2..c59f6b836 100644 --- a/appendixa/patch-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/patch-desc.xml @@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ The patch program modifies a file according to a patch file. A patch file usually is a list created by the diff program that contains instructions on how an original file needs to be modified. Patch is used a lot for source code patches since it saves time and space. Imagine -you have a package that is 1MB in size. The next version of that package -only has changes in two files of the first version. You can ship an -entirely new package of 1MB or provide a patch file of 1KB which will +a package that is 1MB in size. The next version of that package +only has changes in two files of the first version. It can be shipped as an +entirely new package of 1MB or just as a patch file of 1KB which will update the first version to make it identical to the second version. So -if you have downloaded the first version already, a patch file can -save you a second large download. +if the first version was downloaded already, a patch file avoids +a second large download. </para> </sect2> |