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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:6494 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1708 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1376 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-1.0R] Epsilon -> Release patches - problems Date: 5 Nov 1993 00:02:25 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 33 Message-ID: <2bc56h$h1p@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <g89r4222.752427162@kudu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <g89r4222.752427162@kudu>, Geoff Rehmet <g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za> wrote: >Hi, > >I have just been trying to install the Epsilon to Release patches >for FreeBSD, and have found a few problems (me being braindead?). > >Anyhow, the instructions say to use patch -p1 -E - I think that >should say patch -p2 -E (that's not really the problem). If you cd into /usr (and not /usr/src) as the instructions say, patch -p1 -E will work. (I just tried it) >When I got the patches applied (or rather tried to) I got a lot >of rejects in the sys tree. > >What mileage have other people had with these patches? > I just took the entire EPSILON source release as it sits on freefall, unpacked it, and then applied the EPSILON->RELEASE file to the resulting sources which gave me NO rejects. I'm not sure if that's bad news, but the patch should work on a virgin EPSILON source tree. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me