From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 13 10:56:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02714 for current-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 10:56:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA02705 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 10:56:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA08948 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 19:56:10 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id TAA02484 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 13 May 1997 19:55:39 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.5/keltia-uucp-2.9) id TAA04579; Tue, 13 May 1997 19:27:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970513192723.46847@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 19:27:23 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU utilities are old. References: <3377CBF7.120C@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> <19970513073227.43390@keltia.freenix.fr> <199705131337.IAA01404@zuhause.mn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.67 In-Reply-To: <199705131337.IAA01404@zuhause.mn.org>; from Bruce Albrecht on Tue, May 13, 1997 at 08:37:20AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3283 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Bruce Albrecht: > I recently had problems running FreeBSD's patch on some perl 5 > patches. It kept placing newly created files in the top level > directory instead of the directory in which they belonged. GNU patch > 2.2 worked fine. It is a known problem (there is a PR for it). GNU patch 2.1 worked fine too. The problem is that if you want to make our patch uses Index: entries correctly, you have to use "-p0" (even if it sounds weird). I consider it a bug in our patch. I've been using GNU patch for months for exactly the same reasons (Perl). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #9: Thu May 8 20:22:51 CEST 1997