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- From: etsiao@joule.elee.calpoly.edu (Eddie Tsiao)
- Subject: Re: Question about patches and version numbers
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.203400.150665@zeus.calpoly.edu>
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- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
- References: <1992Sep12.170010.15685@greco-prog.fr> <19119lINN6a6@early-bird.think.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:34:00 GMT
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- In article <19119lINN6a6@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- >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.
-
- Just for a twist... Do all patches for 4.1.2 apply to 4.1.1 even if 4.1.1 is
- not included in the readme file?
-
- - E.T.
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