On Aug 26, 2014, at 1:48 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote: > vim might be a good example on this. > > distfiles-append vim-7.4.16-fc19-breakindent.patch:breakindent This only works for vim because extract.only is explicitly restricted to the tarball. Base downloads the patches and subsequently ignores them. vq