Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:41:32 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Radim Kolar <hsn@netmag.cz>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newer versions of gnu diff and patch Message-ID: <p0611041abd3045fce009@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040730154011.GA98131@sanatana.dharma> References: <20040730154011.GA98131@sanatana.dharma>
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At 5:40 PM +0200 7/30/04, Radim Kolar wrote: >in freebsd 5.2 i have in base system diff 2.7 and patch 2.1. >Are there any plans to import newer versions into base system >for 5.3 release? There is an explicit decision to leave diff and patch as they are. The newer gnu patch is also incompatible to the older patch in some ways, so it is not a trivial "just drop it in" upgrade. A new version of patch *will* break some things, and we certainly do not need that right now. What we would like to do is to move to a bsd-licensed version of patch, which I am supposed to be working on in my copious spare time... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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