Re: patch: unrecognized option `-z'

[Brad Arrington <bradford28@comcast.net>]

Nick,

Normally I would agree, but it is just patch, I do not think this is a 
"system" requirement or
dependency.
-brad

Nick Holland wrote:

>Brad Arrington wrote:
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>>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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