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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Over 30 386BSD patches
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 09:19:58 GMT
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- I have recently (3:30 am) completed work on a patch kit system which
- enforces order when applying patches, includes the ability to generate
- multiple source file and replacement binary file patches, and contains over
- 30 patches which have either been posted in comp.unix.bsd or in some cases
- never posted before (ie: some of my own).
-
- Using the patch kit, it is possible to apply all the patches, deapply
- the patches, and generate new patches which know about being dependant on
- having previous patches. This should allow users with source distributions
- to have a fully "up to date" kernel relatively painlessly, assuming you start
- from virgin sources.
-
- I will be uploading the patch kit itself to agate.berkeley.edu
- tomorrow (well, today, actually). To the best of my knowledge, it has all
- known patches to 386BSD which are publicaly available.
-
- The following is the README file:
-
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-
-
- PATCH KIT FOR 386BSD
-
- Terry Lambert
-
- Beta version 0.1
-
- 12 Sep 92
-
-
- 1. What is the patch kit for 386bsd?
-
- This kit contains a tool called "patches" which provides a means
- applying incremental patches to 386bsd, directories necessary to
- support the tool, and a large number of compressed, ready to
- install patches.
-
-
- 2. What are the assumptions made in the patch kit?
-
- The patch kit assumes that you are starting with a "virgin" 386bsd
- installation -- that is, a source distribution with absolutely no
- patches installed.
-
-
- 3. What does the patch kit do for me?
-
- The patch kit gives you the ability to incrementally install the
- patches provided as "current" patches, as well as any new patches
- distributed in "patchkit format" in the future.
-
- The main advantage to using the patch kit is the ability to add
- patches incrementally, rather than haphazardly. Until now, the
- patches to 386bsd have often required that no other patches be
- installed on the files being patched. This means that you have
- had to choose between two patches to the same file rather than
- being able to have both at the same time. This is because the
- patches have not been incremental. In the few cases where you
- were told to "install patch xyz, then install this patch", there
- hasn't been any real way to locate or uniquely identify the
- prerequisite patches. It's ridiculous to get an NFS patch that
- you have been needing for a long time, but then not being able
- to use it because of a missing patch you didn't think you needed.
-
- In addition, even though it has been possible to distribute new
- files, it hasn't been possible to distribute new binary files
- (patching old binaries is not currently supported, however
- replacing them or adding new ones is).
-
-
- 4. How do I install the patch kit?
-
- a) cd /
- b) Download the file "patchkit-0.1.tar" from your
- favorite archive.
- c) tar xvf patchkit-0.1.tar
- d) cd patch/bin
- e) mkpatchdirs
-
- This will create the directory "patch" with subdirectories "bin",
- "ready", "inbound", "outbound", "installed", and "tmp".
-
- The subdirectories contain:
-
- bin patches The program to install and remove patches
- mkpatchdirs The empty directory creation script
- mkpatch [restricted release] The script to create
- new patches.
-
- inbound Compressed tar files, one per patch
-
- outbound [restricted release] Patches created by
- you packed for upload to an archive site
-
- ready [empty] Directory to contain unpacked
- patches which used to be in inbound. The
- patches in this directory have not been
- installed yet.
-
- installed [empty] Directory to conating patches that
- have been installed and may now be
- deinstalled.
-
- tmp A work directory for use by the patches and
- mkpatch programs.
-
-
- Note: Since the patch directory is current directory relative, you
- may install it on a secondary disk or remotely mounted partition
- without problems. The location which will be used if step (a) is
- followd above is /patch.
-
-
- 5. How do I use the patch kit?
-
- Any new patches from an archive should be in compressed tar format.
- Simply place them in the inbound directory (see #4 above) and they
- will be immediately available for installation.
-
- When you wish to install or deinstall patches, you should:
-
- cd /patch/bin
- patches
-
- The program will scan for patches in the inbound directory and
- offer to unpack them. Generally, you should always say "yes" (or
- hit the return key, since it's the default) when asked if new
- patches should be unpacked.
-
-
- The program will then display statistics on the available patches;
- hit return to get the main menu. On line help is available for the
- menu AND FOR EACH PATCH TO TELL YOU WHAT IT DOES.
-
-
- 6. END OF DOCUMENT
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-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- ---
- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- or previous employers.
- --
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- "I have an 8 user poetic license" - me
- Get the 386bsd FAQ from agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial
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