On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Xavier <shiningxc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Alexander Duscheleit > <jinks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Does this [1] affect arch? I guess it does for users building from aur > > or abs, but I'm not really familiar with most build-environments. > > > > [1] > > > http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo-service-announcement-keep-clear-of-gnu-patch-2-6 > > > > I don't see what differences it makes, whether you use aur or abs or not. > It has nothing to do with the build environment. makepkg will use > whatever patch command you specified in the PKGBUILD. > > That said, the above problem seems to be related to using -F3. I had > never seen that option anywhere before, I had no idea what it was. > Actually I am still a bit confused now even after reading the man page > :) > > Some quick scanning over abs tree did not reveal anything : > find /var/abs/ -name PKGBUILD | xargs grep "fuzzy" > find /var/abs/ -name PKGBUILD | xargs grep " -F" > find /var/abs/ -name PKGBUILD | xargs grep "patch.* -[^ ]*F" > > So I would guess we do not care, but I might be missing something. > Or maybe the problem does not even only exist with -F3. The > description of the problem in the above link is awfully poor. > The gentoo bugtracker describe issues using patch with fuzz factor. Refer to the link below. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293570
