Re: patch: unrecognized option `-z'

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

Brad Arrington wrote:
> 
> Joe,
> 
> You can just grab the current source code though cvs and recompile the
> patch command and
> copy it over the old one. Make a backup if paranoid. This works well if
> you do not want to
> re-build the entire system.

MIGHT work for a specific case... but a Really Bad Idea in general.

OpenBSD is intended to be used as a "system" -- kernel, userland, and
ports all in sync.  Break the sync and whine about the results, we
beat on you. 8)

Just rebuild the entire system.  Or stick to the proper ports tree.

Nick.
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