>Number: 172882 >Category: misc >Synopsis: bsdiff/bspatch need version information for synchronization >with other forks >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 19 16:00:00 UTC 2012 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: anatoly techtonik >Release: >Organization: >Environment: >Description: bsdiff in FreeBSD source is copied from canonical version of bsdiff 4.3 by Colin Percival available from http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/
There are also many forks with code improvements and potential bug fixes, but before starting any synchronization work there should be way to reference various versions of bsdiff. I propose to add version strings to bsdiff/bspatch and print them along with usage hints. FreeBSD source tree looks like an official place for the source code now, so 4.4 sounds like a good start. Sorry for not being able to contribute a patch. I am not a FreeBSD developer and won't be able to test the patch properly. Neither do I know the standards for embedding the version inside C code. I also find it slightly inconvenient to have 3 directories and 3 Makefiles to build tools that always come together. http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/bsdiff/ >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
