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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!david
From: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc)
Subject: Re: 386BSD PARTIAL PATCH KIT NOW AVAILABLE
Message-ID: <david.716436045@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au>
Sender: news@mel.dit.csiro.au
Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)
References: <1992Sep13.010735.1171@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Date: 14 Sep 92 02:00:45 GMT
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terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:

>I have uploaded the first 19 patches and the patchkit software to the
>directory /pub/incoming/terry on agate.berkeley.edu.  This is not a
>complete set, as there are still 10-20 patches not yet in patchkit format.

>The following is a list of the patches in the current patch kit.
>Remember that the patchkit expects to start with a "virgin" kernel... no
>strange hacks allowed.

Please note that this is rather rude, and very restrictive.

Is your patch kit going to help me with the bus mouse driver I have to patch
in? Or make things hard?

Will it work with, or cause problems for those installing the patches for
using X386 ?

Will the X386 patches be incorporated?

Granted I have not seen the patchkit software, I would be happy if you
allowed a modular approach, so that I could add a patch to the
'patchkit' directory, edit some central config file, and run the software.

I may then select the new patch, and have it applied.

Could all patches be kept in a compressed form?

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