"Clemens Hermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At the moment I am looking at quite a hand full of qmail patches I would
>like to use. May there occur problems combinig different patches which run
>great if they are alone?
Yes.
>If there are problems in interaction between different patches will I most
>likely know this by a compile-error or might there be some problems which
>occur at runtime or (even worse) create security problems?
Any of these outcomes are possible, but if the patches apply cleanly,
chances are good that they won't interact badly.
>Can I avoid these problems in patching the qmail sources manually?
Possibly. That depends on how good of a programmer you are. :-)
Personally, I try to avoid all patches. Do you really *need* this
large list of patches, or do you just think they'd be nice to have?
-Dave
