>> >   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?
>
>I might be wrong, but I don't think we can have binary files in the CVS
>tree.

yep.  no problem there.  :)

of course...the revision history is a little weird...i guess.

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