OMP Solutions, Inc.

This amazingly useful web site makes upgrading Drupal much easier.   However, while following the steps, we encountered an error when trying to dry run the update:

patch -p1 --dry-run < PATCHFILE

	patch: unrecognized option `--dry-run'

Patch utility on our FreeBSD installation did not have --dry-run option available.  Instead, there is a --check option:

I came across this error when I enabled Ping.fm module on one of my sites and tried to post an update.  The reason for the error is CURL for PHP is not installed.