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From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com>
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On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 02:29:02PM +0800, Zhiliang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could anyone enlightten me on how to apply a patch to a port? i
> recently installed the port "cdce" and encountered "cdce0: could not
> find data bulk in". there's a patch available fo this,
> "patch-if_cdce.c", bu t i have no idea how to apply it.

If it happens to be named beginning with "patch-", then simply putting
it in the files subdirectory of the port in question usually does the
job.

The ports makefile system has code for automatically applying any
patch- files found in the files directory.

  -- Clifton

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