From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 5 15:49:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08896 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:49:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aenima.unixgeeks.net (obanta@aenima.unixgeeks.net [207.140.121.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08885 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:49:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obanta@aenima.unixgeeks.net) Received: (from obanta@localhost) by aenima.unixgeeks.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id RAA01647; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:49:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from obanta) To: Tom Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdate for 2.2.6? References: From: Oliver Banta Date: 05 Apr 1998 17:48:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: Tom's message of Sun, 5 Apr 1998 14:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <877m537umf.fsf@aenima.unixgeeks.net> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.37/XEmacs 19.16 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom writes: > On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > If patches were provided, say for soft updates, would they be > > integrated, or would thy have to remain "third party"? > > Would said patches work? > > Softupdates in current does not work. Someone would have to pull quite > the rabbit out of their hat to get softupdates to work in 2.2.x before > current. How do you figure? I thought Softupdates were based on 4.4BSD, so why would it be more difficult to port it to -STABLE? I haven't followed a lot of the recent changes in either tree, so there may be an obvious answer that I'm missing. Cheers, -- Oliver To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message