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From: Tim Bradshaw on 5 Mar 2010 13:10
On 2010-03-05 17:08:32 +0000, Doug McIntyre said:

> No, there was no structured way of patching. Some had scripts, many
> did not. You pretty much had to read the README and follow along,
> mostly by renaming the old binaries, and untar'ing the patch set ontop.

Thanks (and for the sunsolve README pointer too). I now realise why I
had no memory of this: there was basically nothing to remember other
than what one would do to copy files by hand and reconfigure/rebuild
the kernel if need be.

Thanks to the other people who replied

--tim

From: Casper H.S. Dik on 5 Mar 2010 13:19
Mike K Smith <mks-usenet(a)dsl.pipex.com> writes:

>From my recollection there was no structured way of adding a package.
>You would probably be sent a tarball, possibly an installation script
>and a set of instructions. You might have to run some commands
>manually, you might have to rebuild the kernel to add device drivers
>and you might have to add commands to /etc/rc.local.

That's my recollection also; you get the tar file, copy .o files to
the kernel directories and build a new kernel. Or you would replace a
number of eecutables.

>I can't remember if there was a structured way of patching or if it
>was as above.

No. For each patch I wrote my own script to install it.

Casper
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