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From: osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] patch-kit inconsistancy?
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In article <CGD.93Jan20033023@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>In article <C15EBA.C4M@world.std.com> msw@world.std.com (Mark S Warren) writes:
>>Should I uninstall the old ones before installing the new?  Is
>>patchkit-0.2.tar.Z more "official"?
>
>patchkit-0.2.tar.Z is the current "official" unofficial patch kit... 8-)

Sort of.  It's still *unreleased* and not quite ready for the general
public.  I still need to write up some more stuff on it, and just last
night I *THINK* the wd bug got squashed that caused some controllers to
fail with the current wd patches in old patchkit.  I have one more patch
I would like to add to it, (FP patches - I have probably about 50 more I
could add), but I am still thinking about it.  I *WILL* release the next
version soon, after some more descriptions and instructions, and then
leave the rest to the new maintainer.

>
>generally, in terms of things like patch kits, if it's in an "official-looking"
>place, is newer and contains more patchkits, it's probably for real...

Please wait a bit before getting the patchkit.  I *promise* it will be
out in less than a week.  [Yeah right :-)]


Nate
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