Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 12:01:59 +0100 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: Evilham <contact@evilham.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some comments about /usr/bin/diff Message-ID: <0e6a8ab7-1bb4-10f7-a75d-d2be1c4c292f@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <74d50f0a-886c-4e42-b70e-614dd057788f@yggdrasil.evilham.com> References: <5ced220c-257d-280c-6c9a-7bd3242c40d8@netfence.it> <74d50f0a-886c-4e42-b70e-614dd057788f@yggdrasil.evilham.com>
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On 2019-12-22 21:09, Evilham wrote: > This is directly from UPDATING: > > > 20170420: > GNU diff has been replaced by a BSD licensed diff. Some > features of GNU > diff has not been implemented, if those are needed a newer > version of > GNU diff is available via the diffutils package under the > gdiff name. Thanks for the pointer: I had missed this. > But to be fair I am unsure checking this file is recommended anywhere on > the documentation for "normal" update flows; maybe it should be? I don't know... I thought that was only for those people tracking STABLE or HEAD. I think the noise/signal ratio is very high there, for those who just use RELEASEs. > Your other comments regarding diff should probably be documented in form > of a feature request + bug respectively. I filed a bug report for the peformance issue: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242828 I'll skip the "feature request", since I can just use textproc/diffutils. bye & Thanks av.
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