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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Question about patches and version numbers
- Date: 14 Sep 1992 03:35:17 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- Message-ID: <19119lINN6a6@early-bird.think.com>
- References: <1992Sep12.170010.15685@greco-prog.fr>
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- In article <1992Sep12.170010.15685@greco-prog.fr> cohen@alioth.greco-prog.fr (Henri Cohen) writes:
- >What I do NOT understand is why when Sun goes, say, from 4.1.1
- >to 4.1.2, the necessary patches for 4.1.1 still have to be made.
-
- 4.1.2 generally includes the fixes that were made to 4.1.1 at the time that
- 4.1.2 was being written. However, Sun continued to make fixes to 4.1.1
- after finishing (and even after shipping) 4.1.2. Since these problems were
- found after 4.1.2 was written, it usually still has these bugs, so the
- patch needs to be made to both releases.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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