r7858 - /website/quilt.pod

[dmn at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: dmn
Date: Sat Sep 22 10:38:56 2007
New Revision: 7858

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/?sc=1&rev=7858
Log:
Add a paragraph describing QUILT_PATCHES env variable

Modified:
    website/quilt.pod

Modified: website/quilt.pod
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/website/quilt.pod?rev=7858&op=diff
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--- website/quilt.pod (original)
+++ website/quilt.pod Sat Sep 22 10:38:56 2007
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
 needs applied to upstream source when building the package. It is similar to
 C<dpatch> and C<cdbs>'s simple-patchsys in that the patches are kept as a
 series of files in C<debian/patches>.
+
+=head2 1.0. Preparation
+
+C<quilt> uses a special directory for keeping patches (not very surprising). Unfortunatelly, that directory is C<./patches/> by default. For Debian packages C<./debian/patches/> is far more comfortable. To flawlesly fix this, add C<export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches> in your shell resource file and reload it. This way you won't have to worry about this quilt oddity (as me; ever forgot to mention it in the first revision of this document).
 
 =head2 1.1. Patches order -- the series