From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Dec 23 11:02:11 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BBC01EC8E1 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:02:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.netfence.it (net-2-44-121-52.cust.vodafonedsl.it [2.44.121.52]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mailserver.netfence.it", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47hGdZ0dJNz4W8s for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:02:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by soth.netfence.it (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id xBNB1xEF001114 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 23 Dec 2019 12:02:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) X-Authentication-Warning: soth.netfence.it: Host alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18] claimed to be alamar.ventu Subject: Re: Some comments about /usr/bin/diff To: Evilham Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5ced220c-257d-280c-6c9a-7bd3242c40d8@netfence.it> <74d50f0a-886c-4e42-b70e-614dd057788f@yggdrasil.evilham.com> From: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: <0e6a8ab7-1bb4-10f7-a75d-d2be1c4c292f@netfence.it> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 12:01:59 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <74d50f0a-886c-4e42-b70e-614dd057788f@yggdrasil.evilham.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 47hGdZ0dJNz4W8s X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=netfence.it; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of ml@netfence.it designates 2.44.121.52 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=ml@netfence.it X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.16 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:2.44.121.52]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; HAS_XAW(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[netfence.it,none]; IP_SCORE(-1.36)[ip: (-7.13), ipnet: 2.44.0.0/16(-3.57), asn: 30722(3.84), country: IT(0.03)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:30722, ipnet:2.44.0.0/16, country:IT]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:02:11 -0000 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.