cvs commit: ports/textproc/diffutils Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/textproc/diffutils/files patch-diff.texi

[Bruce A. Mah]

If memory serves me right, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> [ update to textproc/diffutils ]
> 
> According to Edwin Groothuis:
> >           GNU diffutils 2.7 has some serious bugs wrt file ending with no
> >           end of lines.
> 
> This commit gives me the opportunity to reopen a not-so-recent can of
> worm: can we update diffutils in the base and put back a virgin version of
> patch?
> 
> We are gratuituously different from probably all the other Unixes in that
> we need the port versions of patch/diff for svn and arch. That's
> ridiculous IMNSHO.

Without making any comment on the rest of your message...

svn uses its own internal diff library and, as far as I know, doesn't
require any installed diff utility at all.  At one point, there *was* a
dependency on an external diff program but that hasn't been the case for
awhile.  (I removed the port dependency about four months ago.)

Cheers,

Bruce.


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