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From: ngorelic@speclab.cr.usgs.gov.cr.usgs.gov (Noel S. Gorelick)
Subject: [386BSD] Binary patches for the masses?
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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 92 09:07:43 GMT
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Okay, I figured out that almost all of the 'problems' I have been
having with 386bsd have been 'fixed' by someone.  The only problem
now, is that I don't have the resources to hold the source
distribution, and hence, can't recompile those things that are broken. 

I assume this means that I will just be stuck waiting for 0.2, but
in the interim, I was wondering if some 'reasonably secure' source
for binary patches might be made available to fix all those known 
bugs...

Has this been discussed?  (I would assume it has been discussed to
some extent since the patchkit has atleast 1 binary patch already
in it.)

Is there a projected date for the 0.2 release?  If its due out
in, say, the next month, then I wouldn't care about getting interim
binary patches.

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