From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 8 12:27:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from deep-thought.demos.su (deep-thought.demos.su [194.87.1.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D265714DBF for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 12:27:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@deep-thought.demos.su) Received: (from ache@localhost) by deep-thought.demos.su (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA03122; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 23:27:29 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 23:27:29 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Brian Feldman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU patch gone stale Message-ID: <19990608232729.A3093@nagual.pp.ru> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: ; from green@unixhelp.org on Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 03:20:19PM -0400 Organization: Biomechanoid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 03:20:19PM -0400, Brian Feldman wrote: > Our GNU patch has gone stale in the tree. Anyone want to upgrade it to 2.5? > If not, I'll do it myself eventually. Patch 2.1 which we have now is broken for > certain diffs (recently tried with gimp 1.1.5-1.1.6 diffs), while 2.5 works > fine. GNU patch 2.5 already in contrib/patch but there was strong opposition in core team to make it default when I try to bring it in, please search for related discussion in FreeBSD mailing lists. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ MTH/SH/HE S-- W-- N+ PEC>+ D A a++ C G>+ QH+(++) 666+>++ Y To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message