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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1638 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:51:29 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!caen!umeecs!quip.eecs.umich.edu!dmuntz From: dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Dan Muntz) Subject: [386BSD] A few patchkit comments Message-ID: <1993Feb16.182649.28351@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News) Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 18:26:49 GMT Lines: 29 Do patches exist which have only been distributed via the patchkit? IMHO this is a Bad Thing. I recently switched over to pk0.2.1 (from 0.2, see below) and noticed a few patches that I had never seen before. Many people don't use the patchkit or lack easy access to it (ftp) and haphazardly apply patches as they appear in this group. I was doing this until recently, and I've actually lost some stability in switching to the patchkit. I don't know if a bug fixed by the patchkit exposed another bug, or if I've lost information in the switch, but hopefully I'll find out soon by diffing my old sources against the pk0.2.1 sources... When switching from 0.2 to 0.2.1, version 0.2 did not back out cleanly and I had to start over from scratch. I haven't seen any other complaints about this so perhaps it was just me. It would be nice if packages such as pcfs, julian's scsi drivers, cgd's com.c, etc. were made part of the kit (say, patch90001,...). Even if the latest, greatest versions were not included, it would make it much easier for people dependent on certain packages to upgrade (thanks cgd, for getting the 0.2.1 com.c out so quickly). I've thrown together some stuff to automatically add pcfs (with hd patch), julian's scsi stuff (possibly old, but stable with the 1542B), and cgd's com.c (trivial since he posted the changes) to a pk0.2.1 kernel. If anyone would like to give it a try, drop me a line and I'll make it available (consider it experimental until I've heard of at least a couple others succeeding with it). Anyone know if any of the above will be integrated into 386bsd0.2? -Dan dmuntz@citi.umich.edu