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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:25:57 +0300 (MSK)
From:      =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        peter@netplex.com.au, perhaps@yes.no, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: amanda port, empty PATCH_STRIP= lines causes trouble
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980121101646.2729A-100000@lsd.relcom.eu.net>
In-Reply-To: <199801210101.RAA19809@baloon.mimi.com>

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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote:

> I think the best thing to do is to install two version of patches
> until 2.2.6 so committers running -stable don't have to dig out the
> patch binary from the CD to deal with PR submissions.  How about
> /usr/bin/opatch for the old behavior and /usr/bin/patch for the one
> with the "fix"?  (This is not for bsd.port.mk use, so long names like
> "broken_patch" is not practical.)

If you mean "hacked" FreeBSD variant as /usr/bin/opatch and unmodified GNU
variant as /usr/bin/patch, I agree.

>  * It seems I have bad Karma to explain in details what happens with patch to
>  * each and every core team member separately, because others not read
>  * this discussion until something not works as expected for them.
> 
> Maybe it's worth pointing out that all the recent flame wars have been
> caused by someone committing something controversial without
> discussing it first.  When things break, people tend to get angry.  A

Especially bad thing in my case that I call for discussion before
commiting new patch 2.5. Nobody seems listen except Joerg says "yes".
I don't know how to prevent similar situations in future :-(

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nietzsche.net>
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/




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