On Tuesday 22 April 2003 23:46, Jan Schulz wrote: > BTW, can anybody give a nice URL/short explanations, how to make > diffs against the files in debian subdir? I would like to submit a > bugreport with patches for this (and some other things I found) and > a short look at "man diff" scared me off a bit...
Don't have a URL, but this will do: diff -u <old-file> <new-file> *or* diff -u <old-dir> <new-dir> Both spit their output to STDOUT, so you might want to do a redirect... Thus: 1. cp -R debian/ debian-old/ 2. make your modifications in the debian/ dir 3. check you changes by building the package 4. diff -u debian-old debian > patch.diff greetings, Egon
