From owner-freebsd-standards Fri Apr 26 13:23: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA5EA37B419; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 13:22:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3QKMwH98274; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:22:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3QKMvb50647; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:22:57 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:22:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020426.142252.15670459.imp@village.org> To: green@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: drosih@rpi.edu, areilly@bigpond.net.au, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: diff & patch problem with 'No newline' From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200204262019.g3QKJSs87524@green.bikeshed.org> References: <20020426.095955.80136029.imp@village.org> <200204262019.g3QKJSs87524@green.bikeshed.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <200204262019.g3QKJSs87524@green.bikeshed.org> "Brian F. Feldman" writes: : So, as a solution for unbreaking old machines which won't understand what to : do with those patch files (as largely demonstrated by the ports, of course), : should there be a port for a "new" version of patch which the ports system : can depend upon and use instead of the base system's patch? I can see this : mattering because people are very comfortable running releases from several : years ago. That's a problem for ports people to deal with :-) They routinely have stuff like this. I think we should MFC the patch changes for 4.6, but wait for the diff changes for 4.7 so that we have a patch that can grok the stuff for at least three months before we have a diff in -stable that will generate them. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message