Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 23:18:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de To: freefall-gnats@cabulja.herceg.de Subject: gnu/3149: patch-2.1: files ocassionally created in wrong directories Message-ID: <199703302118.XAA00844@cabulja.herceg.de> Resent-Message-ID: <199703302300.PAA19063@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 3149 >Category: gnu >Synopsis: patch-2.1: files possibly created in wrong directories >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Mar 30 15:00:01 PST 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Slaven Rezic >Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Berlin, Germany >Release: FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386 >Environment: Tried `patch' supplied with 2.2-960801-SNAP and current `patch' program from the FreeBSD-CVS directory. >Description: `patch' ocassionally creates files in wrong directories. >How-To-Repeat: The problem often appeared applying patches to perl5, e.g. patching from perl5.003_26.tar.gz with perl5.003_27.pat.gz. (For example, `XSsymSet.pm' is created in the directory `ext' instead of `vms/ext'). >Fix: The problem does not appear with the official patch as found on gnu archives (I tried the one from ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/gnu/patch). Slaven >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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