Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:36:04 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>, d@delphij.net Subject: Re: change to ee.c Message-ID: <20081201083604.545172dag60hadc0@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20081130103156.6e4da70c@tau> References: <49320FF7.4040901@gmail.com> <4932122A.8070209@delphij.net> <493214DC.2080904@gmail.com> <20081130004331.086941f3@tau> <49329F4A.3070004@gmail.com> <20081130103156.6e4da70c@tau>
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Quoting Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> (from Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:31:56 -0800= ): > On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:12:26 -0500 > Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Bruce Cran wrote: >> <snip> >> > The version of ee in FreeBSD is fairly old: the latest from >> > http://mahon.cwx.net/ is 1.4.6. >> How difficult would it be to bring it up to date? How come it has not >> been updated so far? > > I'd guess it hasn't been updated because it works as it is and nobody > has taken an interest in bringing it up to date. I don't know how many > patches have been applied locally to it but that would be the main > challenge in importing a newer version: you'd have to go through the > FreeBSD CVS history and check that any changes/fixes that were made to > FreeBSD's version are either already included in the new release or > ensure that those changes get re-applied to the new version. It _may_ be more easy to find out which version is in our source tree, =20 and make a diff between the original vendor version and what we have. =20 Depending on the amount of changes there, this is faster than to real =20 all the version control logs to determine if there's a difference or =20 not. In the end you have to read some logs too, but only those, which =20 change lines which a different from those of the vendor version (e.g. =20 via the annotated view at cvsweb.freebsd.org). Bye, Alexander. --=20 In this vale Of toil and sin Your head grows bald But not your chin. =09=09-- Burma Shave http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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