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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
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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.
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Paul Vixie
Redwood City, CA
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