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From: veit@fanoe.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: How much diskspace needed for patch?
Message-ID: <1993Mar17.145108.10086@gmd.de>
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References: <PHoward-170393095441@macabre.stmarys.ca>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 14:51:08 GMT
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In article <PHoward-170393095441@macabre.stmarys.ca>, PHoward@Husky1.StMarys.ca (Philip M. Howard) writes:
|> I guess that I have about 80Mb free on my 200Mb drive after loading Bin01,
|> Etc01 and Src01... and a few additional applications. Is that enough to
|> install the official patch?
This is more than sufficient. Currently, you might need no more than 2 MB
(estim.) to patch the sources. Of course recompiling everything will
require the space for the object files, man pages and executables again,
but you can make install/clean after recompiling a part, and then proceed to
the next.
|> I have also made a couple of alterations and I understand that the patch is
|> only 'guaranteed' to work with a virgin system, what kind of problems
|> should I look for? Changes include directory changes to get cron to work
|> and to create a necessary obj directory link for the man pages (I think).
You need a virgin system, this is true. I would recommend removing the
etcdist part entirely; there is not much which is worth to run (except the
games, of course :-)), most things do exist in a more recent version now.
This gives you more space for the following operation: Unpack a virgin tree
of the sources anywhere else and apply the patches to it, then do a context diff
over the whole tree against your patched version of the sources, and
manually check the differences.
However, if you did only a few modifications, you might try to clean your source
tree (remove all *.orig, *.rej) and install the patchkit over this tree.
The use find to detect things that have gone wrong (look for *.rej files)
and adjust this manually.
|> Finally, is it worth the trouble? We have some practical reasons for
|> running 386bsd and so far things seem to work well enough to test our
|> applications.
It is worth the trouble, because it makes your version baselined to a
commonly used version, which is necessary to negotiate fixes and
requirements. And BTW, the patchkit fixes some bugs, you might not have
stumbled over till now, but may happen some day.
|> Philip M. Howard
|> internet: PHoward@Husky1.StMarys.ca
Holger
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