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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!ogicse!psgrain!percy!agora!rgrimes From: rgrimes@agora.rain.com (Rodney Grimes) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: patchkits (what's the status) Message-ID: <C6G414.Go@agora.rain.com> Date: 3 May 93 10:05:28 GMT Article-I.D.: agora.C6G414.Go References: <1rr1iv$snp@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <3393@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Organization: Open Communications Forum Lines: 62 daemon@bigfoot.first.gmd.de (daemon) writes: >In article <1rr1iv$snp@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de 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 patchkit is 0.2.3. You can find it at agate.berkeley.edu or >gatekeeper.dec.com and on many ftp-sites all over the world, i know >even at least one side in germany "bsd386.first.gmd.de", you can >reach this side with login "guest" and password "guest" for ftp >or rlogin. >> >>2) Is there an overview of all patches in the patchkit ? >Yes, the file INDEX-0.2.3 gives you an overview of the patches, but >it is enclosed in the patchkit. I went to extra care to make the patch kit availiable in both it's tarred up form and as an expanded directory tree. It seems that many people are not reading the README.files file in each directory of the tree for the patch kit. This INDEX file is availible in no less than 4 directories! >>3) Do the propagators of NetBSD supply a list of all patches they applied >> to 386BSD-0.1 ? >I don't know . Not in the form of a patch list, it is in the form of an cvs change log. >> >>4) What is the name of the site carrying ALL net traffic since 0.1 release? >Sorry, don't know offhand. We need a real news archive site desperately! >> >>5) What is 386BSD-0.1.5 ? >This will be an interim release between 386bsd-0.1 and 386bsd-0.2, with >all the patches known today applied. >> >>Excuse if these are FAQs, but I didn't see FAQs in months. >> >Some parts of a new FAQ are in the comp.os.386bsd.announce and >comp.os.386bsd.questions :-). > ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) >Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST O-1199 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 >Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856 Germany/Europe -- 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!