I am a musician, a taker of pictures, a rider of bikes, a father to plants, and roller of skateboards (no tricks). And I advocate Free Software and GNU/Linux.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Is it a source code patch or a binary patch? Binary patches are typically just the ol’ untar and overwrite existing files routine, and source code patches are similar but depending on the program and what’s being patched, the method differs quite a bit. Can you send me a link to the patch so I can see what kind of patch it is?