Re: pkg/44713, brokennes of GNU patch

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Julio Merino <jmmv%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On 12/9/11 9:36 AM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
>> Hello. GNU patch fails to apply pkgsrc patches correctly (see
>> http://gnats.netbsd.org/44713).  Another problem is that latest versions
>> of GNU patch exit with error if files to be modified are read-only. This
>> happens very often with pkgsrc distfiles.
>
> I've found the read-only issue constantly and have been running with
> this local patch to tools.Darwin.mk for a long time already:
>
> -TOOLS_PLATFORM.patch?=         /usr/bin/patch
> +TOOLS_PLATFORM.patch?=         /usr/bin/patch -g0
>
> Not sure if it's OK to submit it.  Other than that, I have not
> experienced other issues myself.

How about setting PATCH_GET environment variable to zero
unconditionally from inside pkgsrc?