From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
Cc: | Ryan Kirkpatrick <rkirkpat(at)nag(dot)cs(dot)colorado(dot)edu>, pgsql-ports(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [PORTS] RedHat6.0 & Alpha |
Date: | 1999-07-29 16:08:24 |
Message-ID: | 199907291608.MAA15502@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> OK. Another tack would be to do what you suggest on the main tree, and
> then backpatch using diffs on the entire tree. Then we can release on
> the v6.5.x branch as we would have liked.
Why not just use the current tree. What does backpatching the entire
tree do for us?
>
> I'll be happy to attempt the backpatching, and if I fail then we can
> proceed with a v6.5.2 release based on the main tree. But I'm more
> comfortable knowing that we've inspected every patch, and included
> only those which address something significant.
Oh, yes. I see. Good idea to just review the patches and see what is
involved. It is actually pretty easy to do that in one big patch.
> Does this sound unrealistic? I'm guessing that the backpatching can
> happen fairly easily, but I don't understand why someone just reported
> 3.5MB of diffs. Hmm, how much of those diffs are on the docs tree? I
> did make a bunch of changes to get the man pages going, and they
> aren't relevant for v6.5.2 which could be limited to the src/ tree.
Don't know.
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