Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 20:02:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: yury@nest.bistbn.com (Yuri Krichevsky) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not ? Message-ID: <199805152002.NAA15795@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <007801bd7fea$c1ec0ff0$33ae58d1@yuryk.bistbn.com> from "Yuri Krichevsky" at May 15, 98 01:18:08 pm
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> Maybe it will be useful to put somewhere in one place all patches, > drivers that for some reasons can't be included in FreeBSD > distribution, but is the only solution for some kind of problems ? > Maybe it will be good place for alpha and beta versions of drivers > too. Or even add to distribution 'last resort' installation floppy > with all this drivers and workarounds included in kernel. We could call it "the patchkit". Heh. I guess I could dust off my old "patchkit" code. 8-) 8-). I think a better way to handle this would be a "repackaged cvs tree"; the PAO people would benefit from this, as would anyone else making local patches. The main idea is that a cvsup should pull the FreeBSD source tree down not into a duplicate of the FreeBSD source tree, but rather into a vendor branch. This would let anyone who wanted to use the code as a base for something make their own modifications, and actually keep them in their local source tree, with the history intact. It would also help knit various projects closer together, since you could cvsup another projects sources (for instance, bind) into the FreeBSD source tree -- as a vendor branch. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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