On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 20:31:49 +0200, Boris wrote in message 
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> one other thing: I mentioned already that I didn't have the original
> pre-release available to create that patch, meanwhile
> Stewart & Steven have released a patch that's based on the _original_
> pre2-release, which *differs* from mine, you can get that file at:
> http://www.geocities.com/sandreas41/data/base-0.9.5p2-0.9.5.tar.gz

..ah, that means at least one of you guys has been a naughty boy 
and worked from something _other_ than an official FG release.  ;-)

> As I said already: I would not mind creating such a patch chain,
> but first we would need to know whether things are working as
> expected and THEN I would still need access to the original
> pre-releases in order to create the necessary patch archives.

..another idea to test these; provide test scripts.  I have 
bandwith and disk space and vacant cpus, but no time.

..basically, something like "for FG in FlightGear SimGear plib ;
        ;for V in 0.9.5 0.9.4 # etc for SimGear plib too
                ;do wget -c $FG.org/downloads/FG-$V.tar.bz2 
                ;tar jxvf $FG$V.tar.bz2 
        ;done 
        # etc
;done
diff -ruN $FG$V $FG$($V-1) >diff-from-$FG$($V-1)-to-$FG$V
        md5sum diff-from-$FG$($V-1)-to-$FG$V
        bzip2 diff-from-$FG$($V-1)-to-$FG$V
        md5sum diff-from-$FG$($V-1)-to-$FG$V.bz2  
# etc".

..the md5sums are neat to verify that we wind up with the same 
source tarballs, without having to build them.

..expanding on this idea, it is possible to have newbies use "this
upgrade script" to update their old FG to the current, first chking 
for their old FG, then fetch Boris' tardiffs and patch up their FG 
install to the latest official FG, SimGear and plib.

..at some stage, the official tarballs (or a cvs co to the latest cvs
release tag) becomes more comvenient, so don't over-engineer it. ;-)

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.


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