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What is up with that patch command? Why not cd /usr/src; patch -p0 </path/008_openssl.patch ?

• jzwinck 13y ago
  You should use && instead of ; but otherwise I wondered the same thing. Useless use of cat, it seems.
  • dbbolton 13y ago
    Why? How likely is `cd /usr/src` to fail?
• sarnowski 13y ago
  Because now your command isn't /path/ independant. The original assumed you downloaded the patch to your current directory and you can just copy&paste this command. Your example requires me to modify your line making this "process" more error prone.
  • dbbolton 13y ago
    In that case, their command is exactly as "error prone" to anyone who did not download the patch to the PWD.