Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 13:54:57 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: frank@our.domaintje.com (Frank Ederveen) Cc: tcobb@staff.circle.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdate for 2.2.6? Message-ID: <199804051854.NAA01357@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <19980405105749Z8311-178%2B1@our.domaintje.com> from Frank Ederveen at "Apr 5, 98 12:57:35 pm"
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Frank Ederveen said: > > Are there softupdate patches available for 2.2.6? > Not yet I think, but I'm checking my mail every few minutes > because I hope to find an announcement of softupdates and/or > CAM for 2.2.. There are some machines here that could really > use it (newsservers with7 or so disks). > > Would development improve if I were to send some good bottles > of beer somewhere? > The softupdates are intrusive enough that a new port would likely be needed to 2.2.X. FreeBSD has alot of pitfalls in the area where the softupdates code resides, and when I work on it (maybe once every few weeks), I find something else "new." It seems that others find the same kind of thing. The problem isn't with the softupdates codebase that Kirk did, but the slight differences between FreeBSD and BSD. So, if you think that alcohol is going to motivate, make sure that you send the alcohol out after it is done, and not before. :-). Seems to me that someone consuming alcohol would have "interesting" effects on the system, while trying to port softupdates :-). -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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