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 An alternative strategy would be to skip all porting tests, but many of
 them are useful if additional patches might be applied.
 
 An alternative strategy would be to skip all porting tests, but many of
 them are useful if additional patches might be applied.
 

+=head1 Customizing patchlevel to advertise your local patches
+
+You can advertise your custom local patches by using patchlevel.h as a
+standalone Perl script.
+
+=head2 Sample usage:
+
+               perl -x patchlevel.h "This is a custom patch"
+
+=head1 Disabling known flapping tests
+
+Some tests could fail under heavy load, whereas in most cases
+they would simply succeed. Usually, continuous integration systems
+will at one point or the other reach that problem.
+
+To disable these known tests, please set the environment
+variable CI to true.
+
+        CI=true
+

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