From b08f4096533577934b885fa9df41d3881d141612 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:26:52 +0000 Subject: Initial XML commit git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@174 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/patch-desc.xml | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 appendixa/patch-desc.xml (limited to 'appendixa/patch-desc.xml') diff --git a/appendixa/patch-desc.xml b/appendixa/patch-desc.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..410df67d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/appendixa/patch-desc.xml @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ + +Contents + + +The Patch package contains the patch program. + + + + +Description + + +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 +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. + + + + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf