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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:47:27AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

 > > and have it wget patches from k.o, verify signatures and auto-apply them,
 > > which removes the "admin didnt even know there were patches
 > > that needed to be applied" possibility.
 > 
 > That looks like ugly can of worms to me.
 > "what kernel do you have?"
 > "2.4.25 and it did two downloads; I was
 > compiling it on the friday night"

So make one of the patches change extra-version to -errataN or the like.

		Dave