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Date:      Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:04:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        wc.bulte@chello.nl
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Patchkits: Was :Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility
Message-ID:  <200004251904.PAA40198@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:00:17 +0200, Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> said:

> I love binary answers :-) Which brings me to my original point: it looks
> like you can only do binary patches relative to a -release. Unless
> you want to blindly patch and hope for the best. Rather unlikely.

I think you are right.  Doing so would still require resolving the
full dependency graph, so that programs affected by a library change
could all be identified.

-GAWollman

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