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author | tjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-05-14 06:33:23 +0000 |
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committer | tjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-05-14 06:33:23 +0000 |
commit | 3c94ccdb456ac79823d2e88ec32c0a9770350f22 (patch) | |
tree | e423c197c820aa6df0b92557c8711c0a67db7760 /gnu | |
parent | 2f499f97639f15f7d1450485950088a26af2e325 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-3c94ccdb456ac79823d2e88ec32c0a9770350f22.zip FreeBSD-src-3c94ccdb456ac79823d2e88ec32c0a9770350f22.tar.gz |
Add a note explaining what local modifications have been made to GNU grep,
and giving advice on importing future releases.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
-rw-r--r-- | gnu/usr.bin/grep/FREEBSD-upgrade | 37 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/grep/FREEBSD-upgrade b/gnu/usr.bin/grep/FREEBSD-upgrade new file mode 100644 index 0000000..06b14fe --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/grep/FREEBSD-upgrade @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +$FreeBSD$ + +GNU grep + +Original source distribution can be found at: + http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/grep/ + +Due to an unfortunate number of bugs and performance problems in +GNU grep 2.5.1, various patches from The Fedora Project have been applied. +These patches can be extracted from the SRPM package available at: + + http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/ + 3.92/SRPMS/grep-2.5.1-48.src.rpm + +The following patches have been applied: + + grep-2.5-i18n.patch + grep-2.5.1-bracket.patch + grep-2.5.1-color.patch + grep-2.5.1-dfa-optional.patch + grep-2.5.1-egf-speedup.patch + grep-2.5.1-fgrep.patch + grep-2.5.1-icolor.patch + grep-2.5.1-oi.patch + grep-2.5.1-w.patch + +In addition to these, some FreeBSD-specific changes have been made +to add bzip2 support, etc. + +Due to the large number of patches applied, conflicts are likely with +future releases. However, most of the patches are either (a) small bug +fixes that have been fed upstream, or (b) performance improvements that +could be reverted without loss of functionality. + +It is suggested that those planning to import a newer release of GNU grep +should revert all local changes since the 2.5.1 import before proceeding +with the newer import. |