From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 27 21:31:39 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 466B611C; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:31:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com (mail-lb0-f182.google.com [209.85.217.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F42E8FC08; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f182.google.com with SMTP id b5so2978887lbd.13 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:31:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=czotY8T01RiRHLirjs8p92BVGP9scB0O6gtH8OiMesI=; b=y/8npun8/5IRpA4IidvStHcuuead9TVHXBcoyYuYYfyqDFn3wxoyimAcbweLYAzqe6 zOL5aA10LnGwQo1oQvrUzfN1VZWMoQQrXU/llx2Clg+i0KvJG1kSTx1rP3ruaCebkDIR D7kPptZpnDwgI/dHRmlZkdUZeFyrIzoc6hbLXb7hoRnGUKZ4cv5ioHcLtkCB5e0IiTG4 u88DI1az0RDHCqdXH6LxcplwSX4YTFH6WsvdRRuLaIbKp/IiasJABSLVXNHHMCK5eGNd 6HKpBLIwuMAGmlLeTerFqgAOU1oK74sxPrgnU7iqApz5/OJ4UoJjouK9niK3cyXML9My zp0Q== Received: by 10.152.47.79 with SMTP id b15mr23489279lan.57.1351373497435; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:31:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: utisoft@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.102.200 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:31:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Chris Rees Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:31:07 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 23Mbwrbh-6UaG0luywm23uXwaRU Message-ID: Subject: Re: Porting patch(1) from NetBSD to FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!) To: hiren panchasara Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Pedro Giffuni X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:31:39 -0000 On 27 October 2012 22:17, hiren panchasara wro= te: > [removing the CC list] > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Pedro Giffuni 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