On 27 October 2012 22:17, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchas...@gmail.com> wrote: > [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.
Have you a patch :)? You're right, there shouldn't have been many changes needed. Chris _______________________________________________ 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"
