Re: [PORTS] RedHat6.0 & Alpha

> 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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