patched tarballs

[Jim Knoble]

Circa 2003-01-23 14:35:14 -0500 dixit James Dennis:

: As some of you may know, I maintain a patch that puts a '.' chroot hack 
: into OpenSSH. Unfortunately users seem to have had trouble applying the 
: patch. This is because I use gnu's patch and diff and many systems come 
: with a patch and diff that doesn't seem to understand -u or -N.
: 
: Anyway... the point of this email is to ask if anyone had any objections 
: to me posting a patched source tarball on the same site I distribute the 
: patch on. I know it's ok as far as the license goes thanks to lines 
: 196-214 of the license, but as I really like the work you guys/gals do 
: I'd rather make sure you guys were ok with it too.

IMHO, there's no excuse for anyone not to install GNU diffutils and GNU
patch on any system where software is compiled.

Others' opinions may differ.

-- 
jim knoble  |  jmknoble at pobox.com  |  http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/
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