From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 25 16:57:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112FA154AA for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 16:57:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.reilly@lake.com.au) Received: from m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20]) by m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA05788 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 09:57:09 +1000 (EST) X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-From: a.reilly@lake.com.au X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-To: X-BPC-Relay-Sender-Host: m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20] X-BPC-Relay-Info: Message delivered directly. Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-24-192-48-172.nsw.bigpond.net.au [24.192.48.172]) by m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id JAA01478 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 09:57:08 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 46601 invoked by uid 1000); 25 May 1999 23:57:08 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 09:57:08 +1000 To: Wilko Bulte Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , davids@webmaster.com, mike@smith.net.au, serge69@nym.alias.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? Message-ID: <19990526095708.A46532@gurney.reilly.home> References: <374AF82C.2ED50D57@newsguy.com> <199905252146.XAA05453@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199905252146.XAA05453@yedi.iaf.nl>; from Wilko Bulte on Tue, May 25, 1999 at 11:46:50PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 11:46:50PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > There is one detail I miss: most commercial products are supported by > supplying limited scale fixes (OK, sometime a *lot* of them) instead of > a wholesale upgrade. > > Not that I advocate starting a patch circus like most of the commercial folks > mind you! Just an observation. I'm pretty sure that this has come up in the past. You would need a server to run (?)daily builds against 3.2-STABLE, and build a tar.gz file of the files that have changed since 3.2-RELEASE or 3.1-RELEASE. (Or use xdelta, if it helps. Is there an xdelta equivelant to patch?) Not hard, but since we've got cvsup and make world, I can't see that there's all that much incentive to do the work or provide the infrastructure. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message