Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 13:47:43 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org> Cc: Gordon Bergling <gbe@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "<dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>" <dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: e6ab1e365c06 - main - config(8): Correct the mentioned paper in the SEE ALSO section Message-ID: <CANCZdfpXVcwa%2BO0VERLh5Nd7rvKbWMT2YRFXeGmnuND8owqvYw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <202104141938.13EJcJwo044394@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <YHc0YT8oGWrWDJho@lion.0xfce3.net> <202104141938.13EJcJwo044394@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 1:38 PM Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 03:38:41AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 03:41:22AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > > > The branch main has been updated by gbe (doc committer): > > > > > > > > > > > > URL: > https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=e6ab1e365c06559e964667d2f5a6de856fa28be6 > > > > > > > > > > > > commit e6ab1e365c06559e964667d2f5a6de856fa28be6 > > > > > > Author: Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org> > > > > > > AuthorDate: 2021-04-13 04:49:00 +0000 > > > > > > Commit: Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org> > > > > > > CommitDate: 2021-04-13 04:49:00 +0000 > > > > > > > > > > > > config(8): Correct the mentioned paper in the SEE ALSO > section > > > > > > > > > > > > FreeBSD's version of the config(8) utility is based on > 4.3BSD not > > > > > > 4.4BSD. So correct the mentioned paper in the SEE ALSO > section. > > > > > > > > > > What is this based upon? > > > > > > > > > > As far as I know, and I am the one that did the imports, we > > > > > never had the source code to config(8) for 4.3BSD, the config > > > > > sources in the system are imported from the 4.4BSD lite source > tape. > > > > > > > > Warner has sent me a private mail in which he told me that FreeBSD's > > > > config(8) is based on 4.3BSD with a lot modifications. The updated > > > > paper date and origin I got from a scan of the original documents > > > > found at [1]. > > > > > > If this has infact occured that is a violation of the AT&T/USL > > > lawsuit agreement. > > > > > > Further as the person that did the import of 4.4, and did the lifting > > > to make that version work with FreeBSD I dispute this claim that > > > the config utility is based on 4.3BSD, the history of the files simply > > > do not bear that to be true. > > > > > > Please revert this inaccurate change of history. > > > > > > > Done in c8786bba8ebb. I'll check the commit history before updating > > such a reference again. > > Thank you. Be very weary and careful of anything that is moving > history "before" BSD 4.4 Lite as that is what the AT&T/USL/Novell > agreement(s) basically said everyone needed to rebase onto. > Yes. Rod did import the 4.4BSD-Lite config, but that was just the 4.3-Reno config with i386 and some copyrights added (it's unchanged between 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite). As explained elsewhere, config.new was also on that tape, which the other BSD projects rebased onto, and that become popularly known as the 4.4BSD config while the other config was the 4.3BSD config. This is a bit inaccurate, to be true, but is how people generally talk about it who aren't parties to lawsuits. :) Again, my apologies for recalling these conversations and not checking with the actual 4.4BSD system manager's manual to see which paper was published there and assuming it was the Torek paper. Warner
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