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From: "Shaun T. Erickson" <ste@ste-land.com>
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Subject: How do I add a local patch to a port?
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I have generated a patch that I want to apply to a port. I don't know 
how to tell the port to use it though. Just putting it in the files 
directory didn't seem to do the trick.

What else do I need to do to?

	-ste