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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:59:51 +0200
From:      Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
To:        Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
Cc:        asami@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: change of patches/ handling behaviour requested
Message-ID:  <20000606145951.A23932@cichlids.cichlids.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000606085544.Q7792@argon.gryphonsoft.com>; from andrews@technologist.com on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 08:55:44AM -0400
References:  <20000605184259.A21736@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000606133430.A20509@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000606085544.Q7792@argon.gryphonsoft.com>

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Thus spake Will Andrews (andrews@technologist.com):

> Great work, Alex!  I think this patch should be implemented.  One word
> of caution should be made to porters that they need to remember the
> order in which patches are run; if there's more than one patch across
> these categories for the same file, they have to do the diffs in the
> same order that the patches will be made.  Or else there may be
> conflicts (maybe not, depending on where the patches go).

Yes. That should go into the porters-handbook and maybe a HEADSUP to
ports.

I'll write the porters-handbook part, if Satoshi-san commits it.

Alex
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