Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:38:36 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, jlemon@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet fil.c ip_auth.c ip_auth.h ip_compat.h ip_fil.c ip_fil.h ip_frag.c ip_frag.h ip_ftp_pxy. Message-ID: <20010607093836.T82158@prism.flugsvamp.com> In-Reply-To: <200106071428.f57ESJU01095@lists.unixathome.org> References: <200106071328.XAA07291@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> <20010607065857X.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <200106071428.f57ESJU01095@lists.unixathome.org>
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:28:17AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > As a non-committer I feel compelled to write so that ya'll know the point > of view of a non-developer. > > On 7 Jun 2001, at 6:58, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> > > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet fil.c ip_auth.c ip_auth.h > > ip_compat.h ip_fil.c ip_fil.h ip_frag.c ip_frag.h ip_ftp_pxy.c > > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 23:28:48 +1000 (EST) > > > > > Upgrading IPFilter without upgrading FreeBSD. Users seem inclined to do > > > this inbetween when I update the source tree (usually because I'm > > > > Those aren't users, those are developers. The kind of users we tend > > to deal with wouldn't know how to selectively update part of FreeBSD > > (much less build it from source) if you held a gun to their heads. > > I'm a developer? WOO HOO! Where's my commit bit? What, you don't have one? HEY JORDAN! WE HAVE A VOLUNTEER OVER HERE! > I have upgraded ipfilter many times outside of FreeBSD upgrades. I > know many other people do it as well. It happens more frequently than > the paragraph above infers. I'm not sure that this is an issue. What's happened is simply that the IPFilter files have been relocated in -stable and -current from netinet/* to contrib/ipfilter/netinet/*. The config(8) files have been updated to pick up the sources from the new location. Going forward, if the user of a 4.3-R system wants to upgrade their version of IPFilter (and only that) to a later released version, all that is needed is to copy the files back to where the release expects: cd /usr/src/sys cp contrib/ipfilter/netinet/* netinet/* That's it, presuming that IPFilter is self contained. I'd submit that this actually makes it easier to maintain, as the entire release is now contained in a single directory, making it easier to switch between versions if needed. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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