Re: newer versions of gnu diff and patch

From: Garance A Drosihn (drosih_at_rpi.edu)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 14:14:57 -0400
To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>

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. 

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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