From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 31 18:15:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A203816A4CE; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:15:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4610743D46; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:15:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i6VIEw3R003724; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 14:15:00 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040731035238.GA15249@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <20040730154011.GA98131@sanatana.dharma> <20040731035238.GA15249@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 14:14:57 -0400 To: Tim Robbins From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: Radim Kolar cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newer versions of gnu diff and patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:15:02 -0000 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