Re: GNU patch 2.5.8 (part of e.g. Mac OS 10.7.8) breaks "pkgsrc"

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:32:25PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:40:57PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:28:16AM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > > Any brilliant ideas what to do about it? Using "devel/patch" would work
> > > around this problem for now until that package gets updated.
> > 
> > Just drop the tool entry and make it pull in nbpatch :) That also gets
> > rid of the nasty bug in GNU patch with asymmetric contexts...
> 
> Will it really do that or pull in "pkgsrc/devel/patch" which will have
> the same problem if we ever update it to a secure version?

tools/replace.mk sets TOOLS_DEPENDS.patch to nbpatch.

Joerg