Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:31:07 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Porting patch(1) from NetBSD to FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!) Message-ID: <CADLo83-%2Bz6oS%2BeRvU=Sucd-DpJqCPRnMvTBSZM_QfC7Y7VwZ_w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CALCpEUHXkyPgqaypkiatx978jjMbiYtvMZC3nNHNpnRSdLf=PA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALCpEUHXkyPgqaypkiatx978jjMbiYtvMZC3nNHNpnRSdLf=PA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 27 October 2012 22:17, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> wro= te: > [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=EDa 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 replac= e >> 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) fr= om > 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. Have you a patch :)? You're right, there shouldn't have been many changes needed. Chris
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