[Heads up] BSD-licensed patch becoming the default RSN.

[Pedro Giffuni]

OK;
On further revision ...

On 26.07.2013 20:01, Jan Beich wrote:
> bsdpatch doesn't list files of the failed hunks with -C and -s option.
> This may be less convenient if you edit a patch directly rather than
> regen it after polluting the tree.
>
> $ patch -CEfsp0 -i /path/to/varsym.diff
> 1 out of 1 hunks failed
> 1 out of 2 hunks failed
> 2 out of 2 hunks failed
> 1 out of 5 hunks failed
> 1 out of 1 hunks failed
> 1 out of 1 hunks failed
> 1 out of 1 hunks failed
> zsh: exit 1
>
> $ gnupatch -CEfsp0 -i /path/to/varsym.diff
> 1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to contrib/openbsm/etc/audit_event.rej
> 1 out of 2 hunks failed--saving rejects to lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc.rej
> 2 out of 2 hunks failed--saving rejects to sys/security/audit/audit_private.h.rej
> 1 out of 5 hunks failed--saving rejects to sys/security/audit/audit.h.rej
> 1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to sys/bsm/audit_kevents.h.rej
> 1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to sys/kern/syscalls.master.rej
> 1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to sys/sys/priv.h.rej
> zsh: exit 8
The change came from OpenBSD, which took it from DragonFlyBSD:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/patch/patch.c.diff?r1=1.49;r2=1.50

It was merged as part of some OpenBSD syncing in patch.c
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=246091

Cheers,

Pedro.