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Date:      Thu, 5 Jul 2001 20:07:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org, obrien@NUXI.com, des@ofug.org, Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107052006180.37078-100000@beppo>
In-Reply-To: <20010705161222U.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>

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Yes, I've actually been massaging a few of those- glad somebody's on
it. I'll come on out to Concord if you you need a hand.... It's
sometimes hard to keep -current up on an alpha long enough for a
complete buildworld....


On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote:

> Since David's busy, I'm working on it now.  Just some build issues to
> be worked out since warnings were made fatal recently.
> 
> - Jordan
> 
> From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
> Subject: Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems
> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:17:51 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> > 
> > David claimed he would upgrade beast at some point- but he's pretty
> > busy.
> > 
> > 1. If I had the authority to do so, I'd drive over to Concord and do it.
> > I can do that next week some time.
> > 
> > 2. If I had > 144KBit DSL, I'd pay the extra power bills and leave up a
> > PC164 at Feral all the time for people to do this.
> > 
> > 3. If I had the ability to sweet talk the NASA/Ames folks, I'd leave a
> > machine there up all the time.
> > 
> > If beast can't be upgraded soon, and #1 can't happen, I will make #2
> > happen. I have two PC164s- and one could just be left up all the time.
> > 
> > On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:00:09AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > > Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> writes:
> > > > > it's just the same old same old refrain of "beast is broken" or
> > > > > "oh well", etc. etc. etc.... but yer right, insulting does no
> > > > > good.
> > > > >
> > > > > I beg too much hard cider at dinner. It makes the veins in the forehead
> > > > > swell and makes one impatient.
> > > >
> > > > I have no problem with that :)  And beast isn't broken, it's just that
> > > > its bsd.*.mk files are too old to test WARNS patches.
> > >
> > > Actually, you can work around this if you set enough environment
> > > variables, but it certainly is annoying to do.
> > >
> > > Kris
> > >
> > 
> > 
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