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Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:10:21 -0700
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: Does the patching procedure work?
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At 08:20 PM 3/5/2003, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>The patches have to be applied in a different directory, namely in
>/usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src, with `patch -p1' instead of `patch -p0'
>one directory above that

[Snip]

>The only patch that applies in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail with `patch -p0'
>instead of /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src is:
>
>= patch for sendmail 8.9

Gack. Why do people feel such a strong urge to mess with other folks'
directory hierarchies? It makes maintenance a nightmare.

--Brett




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