From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 5 17:13:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27336 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:13:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27327 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:13:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01652; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 19:12:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199804060012.TAA01652@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Softupdate for 2.2.6? In-Reply-To: <877m537umf.fsf@aenima.unixgeeks.net> from Oliver Banta at "Apr 5, 98 05:48:24 pm" To: obanta@unixgeeks.net (Oliver Banta) Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 19:12:17 -0500 (EST) Cc: tom@sdf.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. > 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