Subject: Re: How to compute the checksum of patch files
To: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@cs.stevens.edu>
From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/01/2005 05:20:52
Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Roland Illig wrote:
> 
>> --- strlcat.c.orig      2005-05-10 16:48:24.000000000 -0400
>> +++ strlcat.c
>> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ __RCSID("$NetBSD: strlcat.c,v 1.16 2003/
> 
> 
> Is adding this standard "diff -u"/pkgdiff behaviour?

Yes, it is.

> I'd rather get rid of that RCS ID there instead of support it.

I generally find it quite useful to see the C function a change is 
happening in. That's what the @@ line is for.

By the way, the $NetBSD could also appear at other places. See 
misc/openoffice/patches/patch-ak, lines 9--10, for an even worse 
example. These lines are excluded from the checksum and could be forged 
without changing the checksum.

Roland