From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 8 12:33:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D0C6150E7 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 12:33:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA14216; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:33:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:33:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU patch gone stale In-Reply-To: <19990608232729.A3093@nagual.pp.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > 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. Time to reopen that can of worms. It is _not_ appropriate for FreeBSD to be using obsolete versions of anything, especially when found that the old versions are buggy. > > -- > Andrey A. Chernov > http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ > MTH/SH/HE S-- W-- N+ PEC>+ D A a++ C G>+ QH+(++) 666+>++ Y > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message