Description of problem: -b option (ignore whitespace) on diff does not work Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): diffutils-2.8.1-17.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo "abc" > f1 2. echo "abc " > f2 3. diff -b f1 f2 Actual results: 1c1 < abc --- > abc Expected results: No output. Additional info:
Fixed in 2.8.1-18.fc8.
diffutils-2.8.1-19.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update diffutils'
Just a quick heads up, that the -19 version seems to have resolved a problem with running 'make check-all' on R (http://www.r-project.org/). It's is not on a mirror yet, so I got it directly from Koji at: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=23465 I posted on this issue earlier today on the r-devel list: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-November/047397.html Thanks to Tom Callaway for referencing this bug.
diffutils-2.8.1-19.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
*** Bug 420791 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***