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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:15:22 -0800
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bugtrack patch downloads broken
Message-ID:  <20080220211520.GA1114@zaphod.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <47BC657C.30803@bsdforen.de>
References:  <47BC309D.5080107@bsdforen.de> <20080220165547.GC22033@submonkey.net> <47BC657C.30803@bsdforen.de>

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On 2008.02.20 18:38:04 +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> Ceri Davies wrote:
>> Dominic,
>> I haven't looked at the code which implements the patch downloading
>> stuff, but you could grab the raw PR via
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=120784&f=raw and extract the
>> patch from there for now.
>> Hope that's of some use,
>> Ceri
> 
> It's a working workaround (though not from the raw PR, where you actually 
> get the base64 encoded stuff) to copy and paste.
> 
> However it would be nice to be able to be able to download the patches 
> using fetch, when I tell people who want to test it how to apply it.

Due to the way GNATS works with everything being non-formated efforts
the query-pr's patch handling is best effort.  For many cases it
works, but for some it doesn't.

The best way to handle this would be to... file a PR :-).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen



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