Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 21:57:19 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: GNU patch gone stale Message-ID: <199906090157.VAA10697@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Jun 1999 15:20:19 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906081518380.13871-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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> Our GNU patch has gone stale in the tree. Anyone want to upgrade it to 2.5? > If not, I'll do it myself eventually. Patch 2.1 which we have now is broken > for certain diffs (recently tried with gimp 1.1.5-1.1.6 diffs), while 2.5 > works fine. The gimp patch situation offers a good example why having contrib'ified things backed by a corresponding port can be a Good Thing. Naturally, using the updated version in ports/devel/patch is an easy workaround until you get contrib updated. (We've encountered this here too) Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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