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From: davison@dri.com (Wayne Davison)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News patch dating
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Date: 24 Sep 90 17:30:56 GMT
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Spencer Garrett (srg@quick.com) wrote:
> What Henry is alluding to is that each Cnews patch begins
> with a *complete list* of each and every preceeding patch.  Larry Wall's
> patch program will happily check that you've applied *all* of the
> previous patches, so you really have to work at it to get them out
> of order.

Just to correct one misconception, to prevent anyone from attempting to
rely on it:  the patch program checks only ONE prerequisite -- the last
one it sees before a patch.  Having the others listed as prerequisites is
mainly for human consumption.  This is not to say that a C news patch is
easy to get out of order, however, since the immediately prior patch is
listed last.
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