On Jun 29, 4:13 pm, François Bissey <f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz> wrote:
> sage doesn't assume that the patch command is installed but rely on cp being
> there. That's why patch aren't used.
> I agree not ideal but that's a lowest common denominator issue.

Perhaps compare the md5sum of the original and bail if it's not the
expected number? Any time a file changes, the file we replace it with
in the spkg-install should probably change as well. Do our
prerequisites include some checksumming or hashing utility?

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