Porting patch(1) from NetBSD to FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!)

[Chris Rees]

On 27 October 2012 22:17, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara at gmail.com> wrote:
> [removing the CC list]
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at 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