Redundant openssh patches

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-6-21 03:13 , Russell Jones wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm working on a openssh local port to add some custom changes, and I
> wanted to add them as a patch. Thus I wanted to check for clashes with
> the patches that come with the port, but none seem to be applied: port
> -d patch openssh gives no output. Is this how things should be, or have
> I broken something? Why are the old patches retained in that case? So
> people can build old versions?
> 
> My custom Portfile has a different name, and sets distfiles and
> worksrcdir to get openssh-5.5p1.tar.gz. It's otherwise unchanged.

Does that mean you didn't add your new patches to patchfiles?

> I
> uninstalled it before trying to determine what patches were applied. I
> noticed that the file list in the macports build directory and a
> directly extracted tarball were identical, apart from some generated
> files, e.g. .o files.