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From: haley@husc11.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley)
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Subject: Re: HELP! Patchkit install DIED
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cs170501@vtaix.cc.vt.edu (Someone Interesting) writes:

>HELP!!!!

>  I attempted to install the patchkit 0.2 over the original srcdist and it
>died on patch 00504.....it failed to install it and everything after it.  Do I
>have a corrupted patchkit?  or is something else wrong?  Any help is appreciated
>as I need to get my kernel stable...thanks!

Ummm, RTFM... patch00504 patches the production of the whatis.db,
which only affects "whatis" and "apropos"...
In any case, I haven't installed that, and I am using my kernel now...
Haven't had any serious problems yet...

>Matt