Porting patch(1) from NetBSD to FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!)

[hiren panchasara]

+ Sean, who has been helping me.

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 27 October 2012 22:17, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > [removing the CC list]
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >> (cc'ing -ports and cutting most of the rest)
> >>
> >> > From: Eitan Adler
> >> .>
> >> >On 24 October 2012 13:24, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> >> >> Also related to that, what about writing a section about redports[1]
> >> >> in the porter's handbook[2]?
> >> >
> >> >This is a good documentation task... but we need more *coding* tasks as
> >> well.
> >> >
> >>
> >> We do need to port and test patch (1) from NetBSD or DragonFly to
> replace
> >> GNU patch, and this shouldn't be difficult.
> >>
> >
> > Hi Pedro / List,
> >
> > I am not part of google summer of code but I've tried to port patch(1)
> from
> > NetBSD into FreeBSD head. I hope that is okay.
> >
> > Patching was trivial and It _seems_ to be working fine.
> >
> > I would appreciate any ideas around how to test the changes and how to
> > proceed further.
>
> Have you a patch :)?  You're right, there shouldn't have been many
> changes needed.
>

Will prepare a patch and post here as soon as I get a chance :-)

Thanks,
Hiren