From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Apr 26 13:34:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from green.bikeshed.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0019737B417; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 13:34:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by green.bikeshed.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3QKYow87624; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:34:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from green@green.bikeshed.org) Message-Id: <200204262034.g3QKYow87624@green.bikeshed.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: drosih@rpi.edu, areilly@bigpond.net.au, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: diff & patch problem with 'No newline' In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:22:52 MDT." <20020426.142252.15670459.imp@village.org> From: "Brian F. Feldman" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:34:50 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > In message: <200204262019.g3QKJSs87524@green.bikeshed.org> > "Brian F. Feldman" writes: > : So, as a solution for unbreaking old machines which won't understand what to > : do with those patch files (as largely demonstrated by the ports, of course), > : should there be a port for a "new" version of patch which the ports system > : can depend upon and use instead of the base system's patch? I can see this > : mattering because people are very comfortable running releases from several > : years ago. > > That's a problem for ports people to deal with :-) They routinely > have stuff like this. > > I think we should MFC the patch changes for 4.6, but wait for the diff > changes for 4.7 so that we have a patch that can grok the stuff for at > least three months before we have a diff in -stable that will generate > them. Okay, I didn't know if the plans changed to being to update both patch and diff at the same time before 4.6! Since they didn't, I remain happified. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org <> bfeldman@tislabs.com \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message