Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:26:51 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, rooneg@electricjellyfish.net Message-ID: <20020322112651.A5435@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> >According to M. Warner Losh: >> I have talked with green about this. He'd like me to fix patch to >> grok the generated diffs first. > >Why? Do we also have a modified patch? The original GNU patch with the >original GNU diffutils work fine so what's there to fix? >I'm confused. I seem to recall that at one point we went to patch 2.5 then >back but that's about it... FreeBSD is still using patch-2.1 because more recent versions of patch don't understand the output of `cvs diff` -- they fail to find the right file to patch if it is in a subdirectory. As far as I can see there have been no significant changes to the source. Tony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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