the "patches" folder contains the packages, and the relative sources, that have been patched since a version of Slackware (in your case 14.2) has been released and contain packages and sources usable only with that version of Slackware: if you have that version installed you can download the packages with or without slackpkg (or, in alternative, build yourself a package from the sources) and upgrade your installed version.
FYI, you cannot use that sources folder to build a package for another version of Slackware (for example, 14.1) without updating also the packages that are dependencies of that (a few, in this case) and whatever has that package as a dependency (*a lot* of stuff, in this case).
Last edited by ponce; 10-03-2017 at 07:49 AM.
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