[removing the CC list] On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Pedro Giffuni <p...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> (cc'ing -ports and cutting most of the rest) > > > From: Eitan Adler > .> > >On 24 October 2012 13:24, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > >> Also related to that, what about writing a section about redports[1] > >> in the porter's handbook[2]? > > > >This is a good documentation task... but we need more *coding* tasks as > well. > > > > We do need to port and test patch (1) from NetBSD or DragonFly to replace > GNU patch, and this shouldn't be difficult. > Hi Pedro / List, I am not part of google summer of code but I've tried to port patch(1) from NetBSD into FreeBSD head. I hope that is okay. Patching was trivial and It _seems_ to be working fine. I would appreciate any ideas around how to test the changes and how to proceed further. Thanks, Hiren _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
