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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:02:48 -0700
From:      Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Porting patch(1) from NetBSD to FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!)
Message-ID:  <508CBC78.50704@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <CALCpEUHXkyPgqaypkiatx978jjMbiYtvMZC3nNHNpnRSdLf=PA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CALCpEUHXkyPgqaypkiatx978jjMbiYtvMZC3nNHNpnRSdLf=PA@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi,

On 10/27/12 2:17 PM, hiren panchasara wrote:
> [removing the CC list]
> 
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> (cc'ing -ports and cutting most of the rest)
>> 
>>> From: Eitan Adler
>> .>
>>> On 24 October 2012 13:24, Fernando ApesteguĂ­a wrote:
>>>> Also related to that, what about writing a section about
>>>> redports[1] in the porter's handbook[2]?
>>> 
>>> This is a good documentation task... but we need more *coding*
>>> tasks as
>> well.
>>> 
>> 
>> We do need to port and test patch (1) from NetBSD or DragonFly to
>> replace GNU patch, and this shouldn't be difficult.
>> 
> 
> Hi Pedro / List,
> 
> I am not part of google summer of code but I've tried to port
> patch(1) from NetBSD into FreeBSD head. I hope that is okay.
> 
> Patching was trivial and It _seems_ to be working fine.
> 
> I would appreciate any ideas around how to test the changes and how
> to proceed further.

I've a version of OpenBSD patch(1) at:

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/delphij/patch/

But I don't have much time to work on it lately, so I wouldn't mind if
someone more energized to take over the lead :)

Note that if this is intended to replace the current FreeBSD half-GNU
patch(1), please make sure that the features are all in your version
before proceeding.

Cheers,
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