From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Mar 21 15:24:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B064E37B417 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:24:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2LNOHYL129780; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:24:17 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020321152727.GA16839@tara.freenix.org> References: <20020321152727.GA16839@tara.freenix.org> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:24:16 -0500 To: Ollivier Robert , arch@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Diffutils Cc: Garrett Rooney , "M. Warner Losh" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 4:27 PM +0100 3/21/02, Ollivier Robert wrote: >I'd like to backout this change in order to put us back in line >with what's the whole wolrd is using: plain diffutils 2.7. > >It doesn't buy us anything that I know of (something that could >be fine) and makes us incompatible with the rest of the world >which is using plain diffutils and more, makes us more difficult >to port something on. This topic came up for discussion on freebsd-standards a few weeks ago. The resolution seemed to be that Warner was going to do it, after first making sure that our version of patch also understands the '\' line (which indicates that the last line of a diff'ed file does not have a terminating newline character). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message