From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Apr 3 13:21:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA16793 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 13:21:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA16785 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 13:21:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA27703 for freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 23:21:30 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA00337; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 23:20:22 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970403232022.UG18328@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 23:20:22 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnu/3176: `patch' creates files in wrong places (following Index) References: <199704022200.OAA27937@freefall.freebsd.org> <19970403015947.46958@keltia.freenix.fr> <19970403075144.ZT46473@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970403120458.33651@keltia.freenix.fr> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19970403120458.33651@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Apr 3, 1997 12:04:58 +0200 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ollivier Robert wrote: > *Now*, if you have > > Index foo/bar > --- /dev/null > +++ base/dir/foo/bar > > it will create foo/bar in the current directory, not in dir/foo/ ! So this looks inconsistent, yes. patch lives already in /usr/src/gnu, so i don't think it's a big problem to import a recent version of GNU patch. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)