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bug in cvs using diff -p

Added by vs1 about 17 years ago. Updated about 17 years ago.

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Hi Matt.

I ended up manually patching this. It failed every time, using patch.
Luckily, in this case, it was just a simple 1 liner.

I finally tracked down the problem. I noticed you used cvs to create
the patch.

It is apparently a bug with cvs 1.12.13 on Dragonfly. I tested with cvs
1.11.20 on NetBSD and it worked properly, so it is apparently a bug cvs
has introduced in the newer version.

When using the -p option to diff when running under cvs, it outputs
a broken patch file. The problem is that it outputs the previous line
at the end of the '@@' line rather than the function name.

  1. cvs diff -u -p md.c
    Index: md.c ===================================================================
    RCS file: /home/dcvs/src/sys/dev/disk/md/md.c,v
    retrieving revision 1.16.2.1
    diff u -p -r1.16.2.1 md.c
    --
    md.c 31 Jul 2007 22:40:49 0000 1.16.2.1
    ++ md.c 4 Sep 2007 06:36:37 -0000
    @ -373,6 +373,8 @ DEVSTAT_TYPE_DIRECT | DEVSTAT_TYPE_IF_
    DEVSTAT_PRIORITY_OTHER);
    sc
    >dev = disk_create(sc->unit, &sc->disk, &md_ops);
    sc->dev->si_drv1 = sc;
    sc->dev->si_iosize_max = DFLTPHYS;
    +
    return (sc);
    }

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It worked properly with the same options using diff directly.
The output should look like this.

  1. diff -u -p md.c md.c-manually_patched

--- md.c 2007-09-04 01:30:23.000000000 0500
++ md.c-manually_patched 2007-09-04 01:20:44.000000000 -0500
@ -373,6 +373,8 @ mdcreate(void)
DEVSTAT_PRIORITY_OTHER);
sc
>dev = disk_create(sc->unit, &sc->disk, &md_ops);
sc->dev->si_drv1 = sc;
sc->dev->si_iosize_max = DFLTPHYS;
+
return (sc);
}

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Notice it shows the "mdcreate(void)" function at the end of the "@@"
line.

I noticed, on the cvs site, that 1.12.13 is not in the stable tree. You
might want to consider downgrading it to version 1.11.22 on Dragonfly,
which is the latest one I see in the stable branch.

Regards,
Vincent

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