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To: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
cc: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_de.c 
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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 20:23:03 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> without fear of being unable to use patches. I feel this implies an 
> organised context diff wrapped in a shell script which checks checksums 
> (and warns if they are wrong and asking if the user wants to attempt to 
> proceed anyway) babysit's 'patch', does backups of the file, rolls back 

Actually, pkg_add pretty much has the ability to do all of this now.

I am working on a "patch creator" which automates the generation of
the packages.

						Jordan