Pleading for commit

Yar Tikhiy yar at comp.chem.msu.su
Thu Oct 26 10:09:42 UTC 2006


On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:04:09PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Oct 24), Doug Barton said:
> > Duane Whitty wrote:
> > >Patching it myself after every cvs update is not such a big deal; It
> > >is forgetting to patch it after every update which is a big deal.
> > 
> > Write a little script for yourself that calls cvsup then runs patch
> > so you won't forget. :)
> 
> Or cvsup the CVS repository (instead of using checkout mode), check out
> your working tree from there, and run "cvs update" to update your
> sources, which will preserve local changes.

... or run a local CVS/SVN/whatever repo and keep your
customized FreeBSD source tree in it and import recent
FreeBSD changes once in a while, as tough guys do... :-)

Well, returning to the main topic, inability to run Flash
can be a good thing, after all, if your browser doesn't
have a knob to turn the damned thing off. :-)  But what
else suffers in an unpatched system?

-- 
Yar


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