Re: pkg/44713, brokennes of GNU patch

[Hans Rosenfeld <rosenfeld%grumpf.hope-2000.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 05:36:18PM +0300, 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.
> 
> In order to solve this problem I'd like to enable devel/nbpatch
> unconditionally during bootstrap on Linux and Solaris.
> Then close pkg/44713.

I do regular bulk builds on Solaris 10u9 and OpenIndiana. I don't
remember ever seeing any problem like this, using the gpatch provided by
the system.


Hans


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