Creating a patch for Solaris?

Hi -
My company has an application that we ship as a Solaris package - ie, it's installed with Solaris's pkgadd command. I'm trying to write a patch for that app and would like to package the patch in a format usable by Solaris' patchadd command. Anyone know if there is documentation available on how to do this?
Thanks,
mike

Hi Mike,
The section on "Patching Packages" in Chapter 6 of the "Application Package Developer's Guide" would be helpful.
Below is the link to the section for the Solaris 10 doc:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0406/6mg76sth4?l=en&a=view
Hope this is going to be useful for you.
Have fun.
Regards
S.T.

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