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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate 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 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2s37a4$mp9@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2s291q$pnl@meatball.rwwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 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 -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Looking for a good job.