nix-generate-patches 1 Nix nix-generate-patches generates binary patches between NAR files nix-generate-patches NAR-DIR PATCH-DIR PATCH-URI OLD-MANIFEST NEW-MANIFEST The command nix-generate-patches generates binary patches between NAR files listed in OLD-MANIFEST and NEW-MANIFEST. The patches are written to the directory PATCH-DIR, and the prefix PATCH-URI is used to generate URIs for the patches. The patches are added to NEW-MANIFEST. All NARs are required to exist in NAR-DIR. Patches are generated between succeeding versions of packages with the same name.