Re: GNU patch 2.5.8 (part of e.g. Mac OS 10.7.8) breaks "pkgsrc"

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:40:57PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:28:16AM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > Any brilliant ideas what to do about it? Using "devel/patch" would work
> > around this problem for now until that package gets updated.
> 
> Just drop the tool entry and make it pull in nbpatch :) That also gets
> rid of the nasty bug in GNU patch with asymmetric contexts...

Will it really do that or pull in "pkgsrc/devel/patch" which will have
the same problem if we ever update it to a secure version?

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/