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From: mwjester@wsuiar.uucp (loki)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: About future upgrades...
Message-ID: <316.26ee6ecf@wsuiar.uucp>
Date: 12 Sep 90 22:22:23 GMT
Organization: Wichita State Univ., Wichita KS
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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.