Bug 388017

Summary:	Bugzilla sends malformed patches in some cases
Product:	Gentoo Infrastructure	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Bugzilla	Assignee:	Bugzilla Admins <bugzilla>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	ulm
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michał Górny archtester

2011-10-21 17:35:55 UTC

$ wget 'https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=287485&action=diff&context=patch&collapsed=&headers=1&format=raw'

and you'll notice that the created .patch file doesn't contain any added lines, just removals. You'll also notice the line counts don't match. That's because bugzie, for some reason, removed all lines starting with '++'.

'Accept' or 'User-Agent' may be relevant, as Opera gets correct patch contents.

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2011-10-21 17:36:52 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> 'Accept' or 'User-Agent' may be relevant, as Opera gets correct patch contents.

Hrm, my bad. I must've been using another URL. With this one, it doesn't.

Comment 2 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2011-10-21 17:53:06 UTC

The URL you're quoting is the "Raw Unified Diff" output of Bugzilla. You may not assume this returns the same contents as the raw attachment.

The issue is known. At any rate, you should be using the standard attachment URL (reachable from the attachment display page via the "View" link).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 251286 ***