HardenedBSD/gnu/usr.bin/grep/FREEBSD-upgrade
Tim J. Robbins 2d97dca698 Add a note explaining what local modifications have been made to GNU grep,
and giving advice on importing future releases.
2005-05-14 06:33:23 +00:00

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$FreeBSD$
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.