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Subject: Re: How do I add a local patch to a port?
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At 13:04 09.03.2004 -0500, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
>Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
>
>...
>I looked at the porter's handbook, and it says that simply dropping the 
>patch into the files directory should get it automatically applied, but 
>it's not. The patch is named patch-aa and is relative to the WRKSRC directory.
>
>Suggestions?

Patching the wrong file?

Patching an already patched file?

Patching in wrong direction: old <---> new exchanged by accident?

directory for patch ok? shouldn't it be relative to extracted sources dir 
within WRKSRC?

Just what came in my mind...

Alexander