Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[William Dode]

address@hidden (James Blackwell) writes:

>> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 10:03, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>>       * The changeset format is defined relative to GNU patch and GNU
>>>         tar. These data formats are still somewhat in flux.
>>
>
> Colin Waters wrote:
>> Can you back this up?  I have never heard of any problems.
>
>
> I can come up with two examples. 
>
> GNU diff and patch are required, so that the BSD diffutils are no longer
> sufficient for arch. This evolving has affected arch, which has decided
> (rightly) to follow the GNU path of development.
>
> Also, we require a relatively recent version of GNU diffutils. I believe
> that arch doesn't work with the GNU diffutils as packaged by the woody
> version of Debian/GNU
>
> Granted, this evolution is relatively minor and slow paced. However, gnu
> arch is very exacting on how diffutils perform. This means that even
> minor differences between versions of diffutils present a go/no-go
> situation for gnu arch.

Why tar, diff and patch are not include inside tla ? It will avoid this kind of
problem...

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