From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 23 20:44:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08788 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:44:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08745 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:44:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA10482; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:13:31 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199803240443.PAA10482@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group cc: "Daniel O'Callaghan" , gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: after the release ... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:41:25 -0800." <199803231942.LAA07832@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:13:31 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > reported, and the user has the option of forcing the patch in, based on > the original binary kept in backup, or aborting the patch. If the user > forces the patch in, it would be up to the user to re-apply any user > modifications. > If on the other hand the user modification is not in the database, any > user modification cannot be identified and the patch will need to be > aborted. Then it's up to the user to figure out what went wrong. This sounds like a good approach.. OK so who is going to code it? :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message