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Re: Why do local patches need checksums in distinfo files?

To: Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>
Subject: Re: Why do local patches need checksums in distinfo files?
From: maya%netbsd.org@localhost
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 22:47:43 +0000

Last time this came up someone mentioned this makes it viable to update
a pkgsrc install via unpacking a new pkgsrc tarball on top.
This won't remove old patch files, but they won't be applied anyway.
I don't expect anyone actually does this.

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