Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 19:12:17 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: obanta@unixgeeks.net (Oliver Banta) Cc: tom@sdf.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdate for 2.2.6? Message-ID: <199804060012.TAA01652@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <877m537umf.fsf@aenima.unixgeeks.net> from Oliver Banta at "Apr 5, 98 05:48:24 pm"
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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. > Okay, the best thing that can be said, is those who might be interested in a port should try to do it. Don't underestimate the issues. Again, it isn't Kirks problem, other than it is a result of changes that we have made. I am not going to be able to help with a 2.2.X port, but if a group of people decide to do it, no-one will stop them :-). John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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