mwjester@wsuiar.uucp (loki) (09/13/90)
Now that there will finally be a new "canonical" release from P-H, I would like to toss out a suggestion for future upgrades/patches. Would it be desirable to distribute future changes as diffs/cdiffs relative to the P-H release? I would prefer it that way myself, as I normally keep distribution disks safely tucked away after making working copies. Thus retrieving the original source presents no problems. I recall that late last year, all the changes were coming hot and heavy, and I barely had time to make one upgrade before the next showed up on the net. If the diffs were relative to P-H's version, one wouldn't have to sweat making an intermediate version installation successfully before starting the current release. Also, we occasionally have our newsfeed down (no, really! :^), and such a scheme would let one ftp the current upgrade release and be guaranteed that it would apply successfully (OK, I'm an optimist). Any comments? Is this a Good Idea[tm]? A Real Bad Idea[tm]? -- Max J.
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (09/13/90)
In article <316.26ee6ecf@wsuiar.uucp> mwjester@wsuiar.uucp (loki) writes: >Would it be desirable to distribute future changes as diffs/cdiffs relative >to the P-H release? Yes. By all means. All fixes should be relative to 1.5.10 ( == PH's 1.5). Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)