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authorMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2012-03-23 02:33:49 +0000
committerMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2012-03-23 02:33:49 +0000
commitab026f274774bb4380f57aa74339677465b3a226 (patch)
tree60c482913a93ed8d44fbb57480467dcc5b7fc086 /eclass
parentfix up some linux dependency issues for Gentoo Prefix, bug 409357 (diff)
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epatch_user: document .patch suffix #409293
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/eclass/eutils.eclass b/eclass/eutils.eclass
index 143d5acbc202..cb458f019e67 100644
--- a/eclass/eutils.eclass
+++ b/eclass/eutils.eclass
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/eutils.eclass,v 1.386 2012/03/01 22:10:50 naota Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/eutils.eclass,v 1.387 2012/03/23 02:33:49 vapier Exp $
# @ECLASS: eutils.eclass
# @MAINTAINER:
@@ -527,7 +527,8 @@ epatch() {
# Applies user-provided patches to the source tree. The patches are
# taken from /etc/portage/patches/<CATEGORY>/<PF|P|PN>/, where the first
# of these three directories to exist will be the one to use, ignoring
-# any more general directories which might exist as well.
+# any more general directories which might exist as well. They must end
+# in ".patch" to be applied.
#
# User patches are intended for quick testing of patches without ebuild
# modifications, as well as for permanent customizations a user might