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From: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is there a bug fix/release notes for FreeBSD
Date: 12 Oct 1995 21:29:53 +0100
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In article <45djhk$af0@is1.hk.super.net>,
Mr Eric Ho <eric@is1.hk.super.net> wrote:
>I wonder whether there exists any bug fix history/release notes for the 
>current and/or previous version of FreeBSD?

Bugs which have been reported to us using GNATS can be viewed through
the query-pr mail interface. Certain reports (notably those with
``Confidential: Yes'' set) will not be available via e-mail.

Unfortunately, there is no GNATS search engine available, you have to
know the PR number in order to retreive the report. You can get some
PR numbers from the weekly mailing of open bug reports to the freebsd-bugs
mailing list. Past report mailings will be available in the mail list
archive.

There are no docs on how to query the GNATS db via mail that I know of,
so here is a quick summary:

Send e-mail to ``query-pr@FreeBSD.ORG'' with the command line that you
want to be used with the query-pr program on the Subject: line of the
mail.

e.g.

mail -s "--full 1" query-pr@FreeBSD.ORG
^D

to see the full history of PR #1. The body is (AFAIK) ignored. To
find out what flags are valid for query-pr, you'll have to find the
GNATS docs. Sorry.

Gary

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E-Mail: Gary@Palmer.Demon.co.uk, gpalmer@FreeBSD.org