Changelog for patch-2.7.1-5.34.x86_64.rpm :
Thu Dec 6 13:00:00 2012 jdelvareAATTsuse.de
- Back to bz2 archive format as old products lack xz.

Thu Dec 6 13:00:00 2012 jdelvareAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.7.1
+ Patch no longer gets a failed assertion for certain mangled
patches.
+ Ignore destination file names that are absolute or that contain
a component of \"..\", except when working in the root directory.
This addresses CVE-2010-4651.
+ Support for most features of the \"diff --git\" format, including
renames and copies, permission changes, and symlink diffs.
Binary diffs are not supported yet; patch will complain and
skip them.
+ Support for double-quoted filenames: when a filename starts
with a double quote, it is interpreted as a C string literal.
The escape sequences \\\\, \\\", \\a, \\b, \\f, \
, \\r, \\t, \\v, and
\\ooo (a three-digit octal number between 0 and 255) are
recognized.
+ Refuse to apply a normal patch to a symlink. (Previous versions
of patch were replacing the symlink with a regular file.)
+ New --follow-symlinks option to allow to treat symlinks as
files: this was patch\'s behavior before version 2.7.
+ When trying to modify a read-only file, warn about the
potential problem by default. The --read-only command line
option allows to change this behavior.
+ Files to be deleted are deleted once the entire input has been
processed, not immediately. This fixes a bug with numbered
backup files.
+ When a timestamp specifies a time zone, honor that instead of
assuming the local time zone (--set-date) or Universal
Coordinated Time (--set-utc).
+ Support for nanosecond precision timestamps.
+ Many bug fixes.
+ Clarify the message printed when a patch is expected to empty
out and delete a file, but the file does not become empty.
+ Various improvements to messages when applying a patch to a
file of different type (regular file vs. symlink), when there
are line ending differences (LF vs. CRLF), and when in
- -dry-run mode.
+ Ignore when extended attributes cannot be preserved because
they are unsupported or because permission to set them is
denied.
- patch-revert-e0f70752.patch: Dropped, original bug fixed
upstream.
- patch-stdio.in.patch: Dropped, merged upstream.

Tue Jul 17 14:00:00 2012 ajAATTsuse.de
- patch-stdio.in.patch:
Fix build with missing gets declaration (glibc 2.16)

Fri Apr 6 14:00:00 2012 jdelvareAATTsuse.de
- patch-revert-e0f70752.patch: Revert broken upstream commit
(bnc#755136).

Wed Apr 4 14:00:00 2012 jdelvareAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.6.1.136

Wed Oct 5 14:00:00 2011 uliAATTsuse.com
- cross-build fix: use %configure macro

Mon Apr 4 14:00:00 2011 jdelvareAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.6.1.116:
+ Patch now ignores destination file names that are absolute or
that contain a component of \"..\" (CVE-2010-4651, bnc#662957).
- Drop unified-reject-files-compat.diff. Compatibility has been
provided for the past 18 months, hopefully nobody is relying on
it any longer.

Fri Jul 2 14:00:00 2010 jengelhAATTmedozas.de
- Use %_smp_mflags

Wed May 5 14:00:00 2010 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.6.1.81:
+ Fix backup file detection for deleted files
+ Allow to create and delete empty files
+ Stick to the best name in the reversed-patch check
+ Various portability improvements

Sun May 2 14:00:00 2010 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Fix the linker library order.

Sun May 2 14:00:00 2010 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Be more verbose when %verbose is defined.

Sun May 2 14:00:00 2010 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.6.1.64:
+ Support for most features of the \"diff --git\" format: renames
and copies, permission changes, symlink diffs. (Binary diffs
are not supported yet; patch will complain and skip them.)
+ Support for double-quoted filenames: when a filename in a
context diff starts with a double quote, it is interpreted as
a C string literal. The escape sequences \\\\, \\\", \\a, \\b, \\f, \
,
\\r, \\t, \\v, and \\ooo (a three-digit octal number between 0 and
255) are recognized.
+ Refuse to patch read-only files by default, or at least warn
when patching such files with --force or --batch.
+ Refuse to apply a normal patch to a symlink. (Previous
versions of patch were wrongly replacing the symlink with a
regular file.)
+ When a timestamp specifies a time zone, honor that instead of
assuming the local time zone (--set-date) or Universal
Coordinated Time (--set-utc).
+ Support for nanosecond precision timestamps.
+ Many portability and bug fixes.

Sun Jan 31 13:00:00 2010 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.6.1.9:
+ Skip another ed-dependent test when ed isn\'t installed.
+ More portability fixes.

Wed Dec 30 13:00:00 2009 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.6.1:
+ Support for diff3(1) style merges which show the old, original,
and new lines of a conflict has been added (--merge=diff3).
The default still is the merge(1) format (--merge or
- -merge=merge).
+ Bug and portability fixes.
Sun Dec 6 17:32:57 CET 2009 - jengelh
- enable parallel building

Fri Nov 13 13:00:00 2009 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.6.

Mon Sep 7 14:00:00 2009 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.5.9.122:
+ Try to preserve the owning group of patched files.
- Add --unified-reject-files backwards-compatibility patch to
older SUSE versions of patch.

Mon Jul 20 14:00:00 2009 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.5.9.120:
+ When copying files, use full_write() from gnulib instead of
write().
+ The -m option hasn\'t been officially allocated yet. Use only
the long form for now (--merge).

Fri Jun 19 14:00:00 2009 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.5.9.118:
+ Change the default value of PATCH_GET to 0.
+ When merging, make sure that hunks will not end up \"out of order\"
+ When the file to patch is specified on the command line,
apply all patches to that file
+ Some portability fixes/improvements
+ Don\'t fail when removing nonexistent files in move_file

Wed Apr 8 14:00:00 2009 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.5.9.109:
+ Preserve timestamps in reject files.
+ Add support for sending output to standard output.
+ Allow special characters in filenames read interactively.
+ Don\'t forget to NUL terminate ptimestr in fetchname().

Tue Apr 7 14:00:00 2009 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.5.9.104: timestamp parsing fix, 64-bit fix.

Mon Apr 6 14:00:00 2009 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.5.9.97: Another bugfix.

Mon Apr 6 14:00:00 2009 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Version 2.5.9.95: Gnulib update, bug fixes.

Fri Apr 3 14:00:00 2009 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Update to version patch-2.5.9.77: updated manpage and NEWS, no
strict depenency on ed in the test suite anymore, and slightly
improved handling of asymmetric hunks.

Thu Apr 2 14:00:00 2009 agruenAATTsuse.de
- Update to version patch-2.5.9.69 which has all our patches
merged in one form or anther, along with many other fixes and
improvements (see NEWS).