>   patches/patch-*         -> patch-*		PATCHDIR

   patches/patch-*         -> patches.tar.gz	PATCHDIR

tar -O can be fed to patch(1) to appply them...checking the checksums
i'm not so sure of.  hmm...perhaps simply a work/patches directory to
extract into?

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