Patch going "boing" in 1.11.0.

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Saturday 05 July 2008 22:40, Rob Landley wrote:
> The attached patch applies to the linux-2.6.25 kernel source with 
> Kubuntu's "patch" (and the one in toybox), but busybox patch fails.

With patch 2.5.4:

# patch -p1 </usr/srcdevel/bbox/fix/busybox.t1/linux-2.6.13-cmdline.patch -R --dry-run
patching file init/main.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 295 with fuzz 2 (offset 9 lines).

Seeing this (fuzz and offset) I would not expect busybox patch to work:

/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
/*
 *  busybox patch applet to handle the unified diff format.
 *  Copyright (C) 2003 Glenn McGrath
...
 *  Issues
 *   - Non-interactive
 *   - Patches must apply cleanly or patch (not just one hunk) will fail.

Time to raid toybox! ;)
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