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From: cgd@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: So you say you want an interim release of 386bsd? (What to do?)
Date: 20 Apr 93 12:54:59
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: veit@mururoa.gmd.de's message of Tue, 20 Apr 1993 16:01:09 GMT
In article <1993Apr20.160109.17689@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes:
=>I also asked the same question when I read the NetBSD announcement. Apparently
=>many people will grab the "new release of 386bsd" just because it is new.
=>What is missing is a procedure to upgrade from a src01dist+patchkit-0.2.2
=>to the new release for all persons who do not want to start from scratch.
(i thought i explained this in the install notes, but...)
if you'd like to install the new stuff on top of what you've got,
dump your system, get a the binary/source distributions,
and
cat distname.??? | gunzip | (cd / ; tar xvf - )
or wherever.
you can do the same to get the source tree, and build the sources
into binaries, then install them into the right place when you
feel up to it...
>(it just has to be done).
honestly, if you'd like to volunteer to do it, that'd
be great, and i'll do my best to help you. doing a release this
big is *really* a bear, a lot harder than i thought it would
be when i started...
=>BTW: I just saw the announcement of pk-0.2.3, and wonder if this brings my system
=>to NetBSD.
not by a long shot.
=>Maybe the patchkit people and the NetBSD people (who are mainly the same group)
=>comment some more about the expected future.
sorry this is hasty, but i'm really busy, and leaving town until sunday,
at 4PM this afternoon, and need to make some slides for a presentation
first... 8-)
NetBSD plans to continue what we consider "appropriate" development,
and incorporate positive changes from all souces which provide them.
we've given our source tree to the patchkit and 0.1.5 folks,
and are working reasonably closely with them. (basically, we tend
to trade pre-release stuff, if i'm not mistaken.)
We'd like NetBSD to be a useful, stable, featureful, and
widely-compatible operating system, and we don't want it
to be surrounded by the "we must be different" statements
which seem to come out of 386BSD, nor the political wars...
chris
--
Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass