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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!darwin.sura.net!ukma!risner
From: risner@ms.uky.edu (James Risner)
Subject: Re: Major diff update?
References: <1992Jun12.031954.23216@cognos.com>
Message-ID: <1992Jun18.233246.17203@ms.uky.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1992 03:32:46 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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dealwisb@cognos.com (Brian de Alwis) writes:

>Seeing as how there are quite a few incomplete/messed up patches floating
>around the net, I suggest that somebody who has a fully working system
>do a complete sources diff (something akin the Net2->386bsd diffs), for
>a complete resync. I've just found out in a recent posting of three patches
>I've never seen mentioned before (vfs__bio.c !?), and new-experimentors
>will have a headache searching through archived news for 'the right patch.'

>I would volunteer, except I'm one of those new-experimentors :-) But
>seriously, I don't have the necessary patches, and I've followed this
>newsgroup from the beginning (except for a transition of a month).

>Is anybody else prepared to volunteer? Remember, it would be best to use 
>a stable version, not one filled with added 'features.' :-).

Come saturday I will have a new 170mb conner drive in so I can keep original
/ and /usr around.  This will allow a diff / /original type actions.
I will volunteer (in fact I have had it planned) to keep the original dist
files and the most recent patched files.

Risner