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From: cgd@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] latest sources available...
Date: 24 May 93 05:13:56
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93May24051356@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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In-reply-to: pse5327@siemens.co.at's message of Mon, 24 May 1993 09:42:41 GMT
In article <1993May24.094241.6711@siemens.co.at> pse5327@siemens.co.at (Abolghassem Salahi) writes:
>I'm confused. Is this an 'upgrade' release or what ? If I copy the files,
>say ... NOW! ... am I going to get a working system if I install it ?
this is a nightly snapshot of our sources (NO BINARIES are in there).
it's our way of getting a large set of beta-testers and of letting
people have instant access to our latest code all at the same time.
will you have a working system if you install it?
that's a good question. in general, we carefully check changes
before committing them to the source tree, but we make no guarantees.
in particular, i know that if people aren't *really* careful when
they install this, they'll end up having a lot of problems;
that's why it's marked as being dangerous.
>This seems to me a very rash thing to do. I appreciate that no suitable
>tool/method has yet been located/written/devised for offering patches,
>but until one is would it not be better to wait ?
this is *NOT* an update release, nor is it meant to be.
there are a good number of people who want access to the latest
sources we have at the instant we make any changes. we can't
accomodate that, but we can update things nightly.
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