Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:17:03 -0700 From: hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> Subject: Porting patch(1) from NetBSD to FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!) Message-ID: <CALCpEUHXkyPgqaypkiatx978jjMbiYtvMZC3nNHNpnRSdLf=PA@mail.gmail.com>
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[removing the CC list] On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote: > (cc'ing -ports and cutting most of the rest) > > > From: Eitan Adler > .> > >On 24 October 2012 13:24, Fernando Apestegu=C3=ADa wrote: > >> Also related to that, what about writing a section about redports[1] > >> in the porter's handbook[2]? > > > >This is a good documentation task... but we need more *coding* tasks as > well. > > > > We do need to port and test patch (1) from NetBSD or DragonFly to replace > GNU patch, and this shouldn't be difficult. > Hi Pedro / List, I am not part of google summer of code but I've tried to port patch(1) from NetBSD into FreeBSD head. I hope that is okay. Patching was trivial and It _seems_ to be working fine. I would appreciate any ideas around how to test the changes and how to proceed further. Thanks, Hiren
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