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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Patches for FreeBSD Date: 13 Aug 1995 13:43:44 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15 Message-ID: <40kvig$c5i@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <40ju7f$qk7@raffles.technet.sg> <40k13j$g7@agate.berkeley.edu> <40kd47$kqj@fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <40kd47$kqj@fu-berlin.de>, Thomas Graichen <graichen@titania.physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: >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 I never said that such patches might not be useful, but actually providing them for each stage of "bug fixing" and within a provided framework for applying, reversing and previewing such patches is a significant amount of work, and we're rather overextended as it is. Plans are to have this all become part of an "upgrade" system that I'm working on, but it'll be awhile before I'm finished with that. Jordan