Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 14:14:57 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newer versions of gnu diff and patch Message-ID: <p06110424bd31917d9330@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040731035238.GA15249@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <20040730154011.GA98131@sanatana.dharma> <p0611041abd3045fce009@[128.113.24.47]> <20040731035238.GA15249@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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At 1:52 PM +1000 7/31/04, Tim Robbins wrote: >On Fri, Jul 30, 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > 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... > >FWIW, I have been running with OpenBSD's version of patch on most of >my machines for a year or more now, and haven't had any problems. Thanks for the info. It is my intent to revive the patch-related project that I had promised to do. I might be able to start on that this weekend, assuming I can first track down a completely unrelated problem that I am having on sparc64. -- 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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