From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue May 29 7:29:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from research.messagingdirect.com (research.messagingdirect.com [198.161.92.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68AA37B622; Tue, 29 May 2001 07:29:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lyndon@research.messagingdirect.com) Received: from research.messagingdirect.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by research.messagingdirect.com (8.12.0.Beta9/8.12.0.Beta9) with ESMTP id f4TET56M011519; Tue, 29 May 2001 08:29:06 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200105291429.f4TET56M011519@research.messagingdirect.com> From: Lyndon Nerenberg Organization: ACI Worldwide X-URL: http://www.aciworldwide.com/ To: dougb@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnu/27715: UUCP doesn't recognize traditional BSD config files In-Reply-To: Message from of "Mon, 28 May 2001 16:29:12 PDT." <200105282329.f4SNTCR54183@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 08:29:05 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "dougb" == writes: dougb> Can you please expand on what the heck is "taylor uucp" and dougb> why this is a problem for FreeBSD? Sure. Taylor UUCP is the version of UUCP written by Ian Taylor (hence the name). It is the version of UUCP that is shipped with FreeBSD. It's sometimes referred to as GNU UUCP. The reason it's a problem for FreeBSD is this: whoever imported the current UUCP into FreeBSD imported a set of pre-configured (by the importer) sources. That pre-configuration did not include the #define required to have UUCP recognise the traditional UUCP configuration files (L.sys, etc.), thus breaking compatibility with all previous versions of UUCP shipped with BSD. The PR re-enables the traditional BSD configuration files. --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message