Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:58:37 GMT From: anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/172882: bsdiff/bspatch need version information for synchronization with other forks Message-ID: <201210191558.q9JFwbs1056859@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201210191600.q9JG0125026459@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 172882 >Category: misc >Synopsis: bsdiff/bspatch need version information for synchronization with other forks >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 19 16:00:00 UTC 2012 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: anatoly techtonik >Release: >Organization: >Environment: >Description: bsdiff in FreeBSD source is copied from canonical version of bsdiff 4.3 by Colin Percival available from http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/ There are also many forks with code improvements and potential bug fixes, but before starting any synchronization work there should be way to reference various versions of bsdiff. I propose to add version strings to bsdiff/bspatch and print them along with usage hints. FreeBSD source tree looks like an official place for the source code now, so 4.4 sounds like a good start. Sorry for not being able to contribute a patch. I am not a FreeBSD developer and won't be able to test the patch properly. Neither do I know the standards for embedding the version inside C code. I also find it slightly inconvenient to have 3 directories and 3 Makefiles to build tools that always come together. http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/bsdiff/ >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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