no patch to .brik in latest snapshot diff!

no patch to .brik in latest snapshot diff!

[Joe Buck]

egcs-971225-980115.diff.gz does not contain a patch to the .brik file.

Please, let's try to do a better job of having good diffs; not everyone
has a high-bandwidth connection and it is important that people can
reliably use and verify diffs to get the latest snapshot.

We've persistently had problems with diffs.  It seems that there should
be a better way to safely automate the process, e.g. a script that takes
two xxx.tar.gz files and produces a diff that is guaranteed to turn the
first one into the second one.  If this were done once it would never
go wrong again.

Re: no patch to .brik in latest snapshot diff!

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199801170229.SAA19220@atrus.synopsys.com >you write:
  > egcs-971225-980115.diff.gz does not contain a patch to the .brik file.
Yes, there's multiple problems with brik caused by moving the repository
and snapshot process from one machine to another (running different OSs).


jeff

Re: no patch to .brik in latest snapshot diff!

[Mark Phillips]

If you upgrade to GNU patch 2.5, it supports doing this for you (see -Z
and -T options). You do need to be careful when creating the patches
though (see the man page).

The later version of patch also deals better with creating files from
scratch and removing files.

Have fun
Mark

PS. Note the default behaviour of patch has changed - you may want -bv


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On 18 Jan 1998, Joseph H. Buehler wrote:

> Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:
> 
> > We've persistently had problems with diffs.  It seems that there should
> > be a better way to safely automate the process, e.g. a script that takes
> > two xxx.tar.gz files and produces a diff that is guaranteed to turn the
> > first one into the second one.  If this were done once it would never
> > go wrong again.
> 
> I would like to see something to get the file dates correct after
> "patch" is done, also.
> 
> Joe Buehler
> 

Re: no patch to .brik in latest snapshot diff!

[Joseph H. Buehler]

Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:

> We've persistently had problems with diffs.  It seems that there should
> be a better way to safely automate the process, e.g. a script that takes
> two xxx.tar.gz files and produces a diff that is guaranteed to turn the
> first one into the second one.  If this were done once it would never
> go wrong again.

I would like to see something to get the file dates correct after
"patch" is done, also.

Joe Buehler