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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Request to ``ports'' developers
Date: 26 May 1994 22:19:48 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <2s291q$pnl@meatball.rwwa.com>,
Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> wrote:
>Since the ports stuff is (apparently) using CVS, it would
>be trivial for the developers to produce patch files for
>their changes (as was done with the emacs distribution).

Unfortunately, some of the 'ports' collections weren't made
by importing the original sources, and then later making the
FreeBSD changes.  With the advent of 4.4 we are using a new
CVS tree and this will change.


Nate


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