From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 27 21:48:39 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 ABCE4614; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:48:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hiren.panchasara@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-f54.google.com (mail-oa0-f54.google.com [209.85.219.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C3F8FC08; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:48:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id n9so4744210oag.13 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:48:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=C383j3NABZWy7/G8cOxVfClpfKEmA6HtMj73NXYkO1k=; b=gMv2oy0O4Dno6iKKMRkOafKJtTRjbTYhFzvvJHJP5NTivGHsO1HDlEEauP1fdnQm2Q Uybrj/q9lxZ5ZYMoPKDkUufIXAPo4EVQrvv7ju2ogCeCDqi7ZRZgB+Y5HVZrLaqQSR7E 2WZmH17yKLRxlCRuV5yfApEhCj13y8weg6KcL4VIQSfa10ggpR8vTusd9BhQ/H9GYF/z tozoRN376y0CC/npSBhvOHgvQ8HklORarNKeSy7o6waEtjyaKUUfAuqNqphWHnW+8IZf mjKsrLVwifDfEISzqy2lCL5d9S2sHT/ZxT1P7V7+dQfFzaA6HFHqZupvnasW33f/9IJ7 +7Lw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.171.146 with SMTP id au18mr14535722oec.25.1351374512163; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:48:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.214.103 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:48:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:48:32 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Porting patch(1) from NetBSD to FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!) From: hiren panchasara To: Chris Rees Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 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 21:48:39 -0000 + Sean, who has been helping me. On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Chris Rees wrote: > On 27 October 2012 22:17, hiren panchasara > wrote: > > [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=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. > > Have you a patch :)? You're right, there shouldn't have been many > changes needed. > Will prepare a patch and post here as soon as I get a chance :-) Thanks, Hiren