Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:48:32 -0700 From: hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> To: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Porting patch(1) from NetBSD to FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!) Message-ID: <CALCpEUEH9xiSHVyV=FqEVM3m7V3G%2B_5bNnNJKroY3Dnr-RqTXA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADLo83-%2Bz6oS%2BeRvU=Sucd-DpJqCPRnMvTBSZM_QfC7Y7VwZ_w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALCpEUHXkyPgqaypkiatx978jjMbiYtvMZC3nNHNpnRSdLf=PA@mail.gmail.com> <CADLo83-%2Bz6oS%2BeRvU=Sucd-DpJqCPRnMvTBSZM_QfC7Y7VwZ_w@mail.gmail.com>
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+ Sean, who has been helping me. On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 27 October 2012 22:17, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> > wrote: > > [removing the CC list] > > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> 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
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