[csw-maintainers] Fwd: Solaris package, was Re: Mercurial 1.3 released!

[Philip Brown]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 04:55:00PM +0200, rupert THURNER wrote:
> hi,
> 
> could it be possible that the type of providing the user homedir used
> on the csw servers influence the test result of the mercurial package?
> see the bottom of belows mail from mads.

I dont think it has much to do with the "homedirs". 
Seems like, according to the bug report, you need to force mercurial to use
"gdiff" instead of "diff".
Makes sense. Some software is like that.