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

2012-11-13 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 23:13:00 -0700, hiren panchasara wrote: Thank you all for the inputs. I understand this is a long grueling process so I will attempt to do things in approximately following order: 1) prepare a new port for bsd patch 2) make sure new bsd patch has all options of

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

2012-10-30 Thread hiren panchasara
Thank you all for the inputs. I understand this is a long grueling process so I will attempt to do things in approximately following order: 1) prepare a new port for bsd patch 2) make sure new bsd patch has all options of existing gnu patch 3) merge outstanding patches:

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

2012-10-28 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Em 27-10-2012 23:17, hiren panchasara escreveu: 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

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

2012-10-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 28 October 2012 03:55, Gabor Kovesdan ga...@kovesdan.org wrote: Hi Hiren, good to hear that someone is working on this! However, porting these utilies is much tougher than it apparently seems. There are much more criteria than just it compiles and works. More specifically, you should

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

2012-10-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28 October 2012 03:55, Gabor Kovesdan ga...@kovesdan.org wrote: Hi Hiren, good to hear that someone is working on this! However, porting these utilies is much tougher than it apparently seems. There are much more

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

2012-10-27 Thread hiren panchasara
[removing the CC list] On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@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

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

2012-10-27 Thread Chris Rees
On 27 October 2012 22:17, hiren panchasara hiren.panchas...@gmail.com wrote: [removing the CC list] On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@freebsd.org wrote: (cc'ing -ports and cutting most of the rest) From: Eitan Adler . On 24 October 2012 13:24, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:

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

2012-10-27 Thread hiren panchasara
+ Sean, who has been helping me. On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 27 October 2012 22:17, hiren panchasara hiren.panchas...@gmail.com wrote: [removing the CC list] On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@freebsd.org wrote: (cc'ing

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

2012-10-27 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hello Hiren; On 10/27/2012 16:48, hiren panchasara wrote: + Sean, who has been helping me. On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org mailto:cr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 27 October 2012 22:17, hiren panchasara hiren.panchas...@gmail.com

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

2012-10-27 Thread hiren panchasara
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@freebsd.org wrote: Hello Hiren; On 10/27/2012 16:48, hiren panchasara wrote: + Sean, who has been helping me. On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 27 October 2012 22:17, hiren panchasara

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

2012-10-27 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi; On 10/27/2012 22:08, hiren panchasara wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@freebsd.org mailto:p...@freebsd.org wrote: Hello Hiren; On 10/27/2012 16:48, hiren panchasara wrote: ... This is great news Hiren, Thanks! The stress test for

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

2012-10-27 Thread Xin Li
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 10/27/12 2:17 PM, hiren panchasara wrote: [removing the CC list] On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@freebsd.org wrote: (cc'ing -ports and cutting most of the rest) From: Eitan Adler . On 24 October 2012 13:24,