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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!darwin.sura.net!ukma!risner From: risner@ms.uky.edu (James Risner) Subject: Re: Major diff update? References: <1992Jun12.031954.23216@cognos.com> Message-ID: <1992Jun18.233246.17203@ms.uky.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1992 03:32:46 GMT Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Lines: 22 dealwisb@cognos.com (Brian de Alwis) writes: >Seeing as how there are quite a few incomplete/messed up patches floating >around the net, I suggest that somebody who has a fully working system >do a complete sources diff (something akin the Net2->386bsd diffs), for >a complete resync. I've just found out in a recent posting of three patches >I've never seen mentioned before (vfs__bio.c !?), and new-experimentors >will have a headache searching through archived news for 'the right patch.' >I would volunteer, except I'm one of those new-experimentors :-) But >seriously, I don't have the necessary patches, and I've followed this >newsgroup from the beginning (except for a transition of a month). >Is anybody else prepared to volunteer? Remember, it would be best to use >a stable version, not one filled with added 'features.' :-). Come saturday I will have a new 170mb conner drive in so I can keep original / and /usr around. This will allow a diff / /original type actions. I will volunteer (in fact I have had it planned) to keep the original dist files and the most recent patched files. Risner