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Date:      05 Apr 1998 17:48:24 -0500
From:      Oliver Banta <obanta@unixgeeks.net>
To:        Tom <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Softupdate for 2.2.6?
Message-ID:  <877m537umf.fsf@aenima.unixgeeks.net>
In-Reply-To: Tom's message of Sun, 5 Apr 1998 14:53:57 -0700 (PDT)
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980405145236.23782A-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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Tom <tom@sdf.com> 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

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