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Subject: gnu/3149: patch-2.1: files ocassionally created in wrong directories
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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: