Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 12:16:10 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: recent diffs Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960123120734.3251D-100000@latte.eng.umd.edu>
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A couple of times recently, there have been suggestions made that I make manual changes to my sources, to get past problems with the lib makefile and with threading. Doing that works nicely for folks running sup, but for us running ctm, getting out of sync with the CVS tree, even by one byte, means that ctm breaks without hope of repair, and an entire new source tree has to be downloaded. Since many of us are connected through hosts that make it difficult to download 30 meg chunks, this means going out and begging for ftp space. Distasteful. Because of this, I (at least, and probably others too) am not terribly willing to make manual changes to my source tree. I usually cultivate patience, and wait for the fixes to come down through commits. If things are broken, and commits don't fix it, it surely does put part of the users in a bad position. This hasn't happened before, and I don't think it's likely to happen again, but maybe it's something to keep in mind, when fixing things that have gone bonkers; posting a diff isn't enough. ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: <URL:http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/>;
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