cvs commit: CVSROOT exclude
Robert Garrett
rg70 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Feb 10 11:36:56 PST 2004
Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :
> :> Well, you didn't answer my first query :-).
> :>
> :Did you send it to Rob or myself ? I don't see before this in my email
> :about it.
> :
> :-DR
>
> Oh, well,... I sent it to Rob I think. In anycase, not a big deal.
>
> I would prefer that any vendor code related fixups we do revert the
> vendor code to its pristine state and put the adjustments in the
> build directories instead of patching the vendor code (e.g. like I
> do with binutils212 and gcc3-3), but that's a lot of work (it was
> at least 40 man hours for me to do gcc3-3) so it's not a requirement.
> Crypto would be a good candidate.
>
> FreeBSD almost got it right but by insisting on making patches
> directly to the vendor import they create a situation where older
> versions of the vendor code must be physically retained in the
> repository, and the result is that a lot of vendor code is allowed to
> rot for long periods of time.
>
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I hadn't recieved anything from you either.
Rob
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