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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!paul From: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Subject: Re: interim release. Message-ID: <1993Jul21.053444.19280@cm.cf.ac.uk> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: Intelligent Systems Lab, ELSYM, University of Wales, Cardiff References: <JKH.93Jul17212255@whisker.lotus.ie> <CAEwsw.2xz@veda.is> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 05:34:43 +0000 Lines: 31 In article <CAEwsw.2xz@veda.is> adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes: >Is it compatible with the patchkit or is this an isolated thing? The reason I >ask is that I don't have the machine resources at the moment to run multiple >versions. What I would like to see (is this wishful thinking?) is that patchkit >0.2.5 would serve as a way of upgrading from patchkit 0.2.4 to the interim >version (386bsd 1.5 or whatever), or that the 2 paths if separate for awhile >will merge again fairly quickly, say with patchkit 0.2.6. There just seems >to be a bit too much unnecessary diversity if there are so many versions of >386bsd 0.1 around (patchkit, interim, netBSD). > Don't take this as an OFFICIAL statement but basically the situation is.. The patchkit is no more. As of 0.2.4 the patchkit team has spent it's time building a complete new release so just think of it as a very big patchkit :-). The patchkit mechanism just became too unwieldly to handle the job with all the fixes that were needed. Real soon (and I mean real soon) the interim release will be announced. This will be a complete new tree with all of the previous patchkit and a load more fixes applied, it should be very stable and has all the newest utils as well. -- Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk