From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 27 16:59:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA3E316A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:59:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [207.192.128.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8999743D41 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:58:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i5RGwmae005406 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:58:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dickey@localhost) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id i5RGwmWV005405 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:58:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:58:48 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20040627165848.GA4997@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20040627145408.GA71410@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> <20040627154009.GA23021@saltmine.radix.net> <200406271815.42697.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406271815.42697.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Subject: Re: Suggest to upgrade some software in base X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:59:02 -0000 --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 06:15:39PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Sunday 27 June 2004 17:40, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 04:54:08PM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote: > > > diff - 2.7 -> 2.8.1 > > > Should be painless (I think) and I dont see why should we keep the old > > > version http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/diffutils.html > > > > Newer versions of diff change some of the formatting information, > > which can break scripts. >=20 > Just as newer scripts might break because they assume diff output from th= e=20 > current version. The interesting question would be if this is considered = a=20 > bug by the GNU diff developers. They seem to have regarded it as a feature (I recalled this one since I modified diffstat a couple of times to work around the changes). --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFA3vzGtIqByHxlDocRAmoLAJ95LMlZ9uMIXa2nR2iTQeWYjsRsiACdETHu ++zNYaXzUL114VxnEn1M2g0= =qPej -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--