[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] patch-2.6

[Xavier]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Alexander Duscheleit
<jinks at huntemann.uni-oldenburg.de> 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.