2007/1/6, Ingo Schwarze [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Marcos Laufer wrote on Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 11:03:10AM -0300:
From: Tasmanian Devil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://openbsdbinpatch.sourceforge.net/ :-)
Wow, that openbsdbinpatch looks pretty good! I 've just downloaded it
and the idea of making binary patches in order to easily copy them to
other similar machines is excellent.
Indeed it is a simple and powerful idea, and the code is not too
difficult to understand. It worked for me when i used it.
Yet, be careful. Binpatch is *definitely* unsupported by the
OpenBSD project. The standard way to do the task is release(8).
What is more, Binpatch is essentially unsupported by its author,
too. Neither Gerardo nor me take the time to update it regularly,
nowadays.
More than a year ago, i checked and edited the Makefile, made it
easier to understand, easier to maintain, shorter and more robust.
Several of my suggestions were incorporated by Gerardo into the
Sourceforge 1.0.0 release, but not all - mostly because i sent those
changes in more than one batch, and he found no time to process
the last of these batches. I did not pursue the subject rigourously
enough to get commit access to the SF repository myself.
So if you use it, you will probably need to do maintenance work
yourself, first of all adapting it to OpenBSD 4.0.
It would be great if openbsdbinpatch could be configured like
TEPATCHE specifying the folder where to get the patches from,
instead of specifiyng patch by patch in the Makefile, so it
could be used to patch any OpenBSD version, not just the last
one.
Perhaps someone with some programming skills could do it.
Maybe i shall come back to the project, maybe not.
Currently, it is not near the top of my priority list.
Hello there,
First of all, thanks for the kind words.
Let me clarify some things:
binpatch is mainly bsd.binpatch.mk. That's all.
There's an 'include' target that I haven't yet implemented but which
is trivial to do. Some people have already sent me a patch for it.
Makefile is supposed to be maintained by you, adding new patches as
they are announced.
Some time ago I suggested to use a kind of XML feed for errata such
that it would be easy to retrieve it and generate/modify a Makefile
from it. It was almost ignored back then.
What do you think now?
We can always parse errata.html (I think that's what tepatche does)
but it is not ellegant nor we can trust that it will always work.
Developers are not precisely HTML gurus and are not so correctness
driven coding HTML than they are coding C.
--
Gerardo Santana
http://santanatechnotes.blogspot.com/
