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Date:      Thu, 3 Apr 1997 23:20:22 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gnu/3176: `patch' creates files in wrong places (following Index)
Message-ID:  <19970403232022.UG18328@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <19970403120458.33651@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Apr 3, 1997 12:04:58 %2B0200
References:  <199704022200.OAA27937@freefall.freebsd.org> <19970403015947.46958@keltia.freenix.fr> <19970403075144.ZT46473@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970403120458.33651@keltia.freenix.fr>

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As Ollivier Robert wrote:

> *Now*, if you have
> 
> Index foo/bar
> --- /dev/null <date>
> +++ base/dir/foo/bar <date>
> 
> it will create foo/bar in the current directory, not in dir/foo/ !

So this looks inconsistent, yes.

patch lives already in /usr/src/gnu, so i don't think it's a big
problem to import a recent version of GNU patch.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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