* Andreas Barth: > This means: If the local file dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages has > the sha1-sum of f3a0c1972021af11782c661d1bd5214f1d443868, take the patch > named 2005-01-04-1633.27 (and this patch has the given size and > sha1-sum). Of course, this patch is a gz'ed file. The Patches are > ed-style, which is better for size.
Is this really a good idea? patch invokes ed(1) to process ed scripts, and this might lead to execution of arbitrary commands.