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From: graichen@titania.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Patches for FreeBSD
Date: 13 Aug 1995 08:28:55 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: In article <40ju7f$qk7@raffles.technet.sg>,
: James Seng <jseng@technet.sg> wrote:
: >However, I find it extremely strange that i have seen no archive
: >of patches (or even heard of it) for FreeBSD. Is there one around?
: >(or someone going to claim that FreeBSD has no bug?)
: We don't have "patches" to FreeBSD so much as we have an ongoing
: code base which is improved (freebsd-current). See http://www.freebsd.org
: for more information on this and other things.
: Open bug reports are posted once a week to bugs@freebsd.org - a mailing
: list that anyone can subscribe to. Again, see the web site for information
: on subscribing to the mailing lists.
but i think it would be useful to have a maybe "patches" dir at
ftp.freebsd.org in the RELEASE directories - because if you use FreeBSD as a
production machine you can't always install -current all three weeks to solve
the problems - i think as far as it is possible real bugfixes should also be
available for the latest release as a patch - ok you may also look at -current
and at the commit mailing lists to find out what was changed to fix the
problem (that's the way i do it at the moment) but this takes a lot of time
and work - the best would be if any significant bugfix will be send to
-current and to the "patches-maintainer" (maybe i'll try to do it later - at
the moment - until october - my time is too short) - who simply adapts them to
the last RELEASE tree
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