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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!decwrl!vixie!vixie From: vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4-lite? Date: 22 Jul 94 00:06:33 Organization: Vixie Enterprises Lines: 24 Message-ID: <VIXIE.94Jul22000633@office.home.vix.com> References: <2vgvc7$3tg@spruce.cic.net> <30finf$98e@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <Ct75oE.75p@newsserver.aggregate.com> <30h9jl$fg4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <Ct8o9E.8My@newsserver.aggregate.com> <30lpld$a7u@quagga.ru.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: office.home.vix.com In-reply-to: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za's message of 21 Jul 1994 12:28:29 GMT As near as I can tell from the FreeBSD folks' arguments about why NetBSD's having gradually merged in 4.4-Lite being a bad thing, they must not know about "diff -r". No matter how one moves to a 4.4-Lite base, it's essential to do a long "diff -r -c2" of your resulting tree against the original 4.4-Lite sources, and eyeball the whole of "diff"'s output to make sure you didn't do anything you didn't intend to do. In the case of NetBSD, they may see 4.4-Lite'isms they forgot to merge in. In the case of FreeBSD, they may see 1.1.5'isms they forgot to merge in. But either way it's the same final step to making sure the 4.4-Lite based system is "right". So why argue that either "middle set of steps" is better? I guess we argue because it lets us avoid doing any work without feeling like we've completely wasted our time. It's an amazing form of self deception, and here I am. -- Paul Vixie Redwood City, CA decwrl!vixie!paul <paul@vix.com>