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From: rgrimes@agora.rain.com (Rodney Grimes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: patchkits (what's the status)
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Date: 3 May 93 10:02:01 GMT
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kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes:


>I want to express my acknowledgement to terry webers previous work on the
>patchkits(s) (0.1 and what was following).

>Could someone rail me in again and tell me about the following things:

>1) Where is the current patchkit? What version, where can it be found?   

The current released version is 0.2.3-B1 and that will be the last version
of the 0.2.3 release.  I am trying to close in on a 0.2.4 ALPHA release some
time in the next 2 weeks.

The master patch kit site is not online, it lives on one of my boxes at
home.  The site that I update first is bsd.coe.montana.edu, and I quickly
mirror that to sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu.  It takes a few days for me to
get agate updated, and thus it's mirrors lag behind.

>2) Is there an overview of all patches in the patchkit ?

I have completedly automated the creation of the following files that
are shipped out with the patch kit.  These files are both inside and
outside the patch kit tar.z (.z == gzip) for easy reference:

INDEX-x.x.x, this is a complete index with textual description of the patches.
FILES-BY-FILE-x.x.x, tells what patch patched what file, sorted by file.
FILES-BY-PATCH-x.x.x, tells what patch patched what file, sorted by patch.

>3) Do the propagators of NetBSD supply a list of all patches they applied
>   to 386BSD-0.1 ?

Not really, they do have a summary log, but it does not contain all of
the changes, nor does it contain much detail.

>4) What is the name of the site carrying ALL net traffic since 0.1 release?

I do not know of ANY true archive of c.o.3 news groups, could some one please
point me at one, and if one does not exsist can we please get a major news
archive site to pick these groups up.

>5) What is 386BSD-0.1.5 ?

Humm.. there are some other postings on this.  The base code we are starting
with IS 0.1 + patch kit 0.2.4 PRE-ALPHA, and as the patch kit coordinator and
a core team member of 0.1.5 I will make sure that ALL of the work from the
patch kit up to and including patch kit 0.2.4 is in the 0.1.5 release at which
time the patch kit will be replaced by new tools.


>Excuse if these are FAQs, but I didn't see FAQs in months.

There are some new ones out.. thanks to Dave Burgess there is a VASTLY
improved FAQ.

-- 
Rod Grimes						rgrimes@agora.rain.com
386BSD patchkit coordinator			      Wish it paid real money!
Accurate Automation Company          All opinions belong to me and my company!