Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[James Blackwell]

> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:10:23PM -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
>> 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
>
Andrew suffield wrote:
> I should point out that "relatively" is fairly weak here. The version
> of diffutils in woody is *exceptionally* old; at least five years, IIRC.

That's a fair assessment. I do think, however, that its worth noting
that, slow moving or otherwise, diff and patch *are* moving targets. The
problem is slighly worsened by the fact that we're *very* specific about
patch and diff utilities.

A few months ago I was on on an openbsd system that was so old.. (HOW old
was it?), that the console didn't even support color! 

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