Rainer Zocholl wrote: > can't patches modify/add a string to a "Versionstring table" too, > which VDR logs in syslog and (maybe) displays in the command window? Problem is: How to avoid collisions of different patches if they want to write to the same 'installed patches' list? Only idea I have would be an installed-patches sub folder where every patch can place an unique-named file with an ID string. Then you just need a clever makefile that merges all these together into one include-able file. Can make depend a file on every file in a sub folder? eg. does something like this work: installed-patches.inc: installed-patches/* @cat installed-patches/* > installed-patches.inc Cheers, Udo