On 1/31/07, John Beck <jbeck at eng.sun.com> wrote:
> Danek> Sendmail is the only thing I can think of that tracks the outside
> Danek> closely, and I think that jbeck has gotten all the stuff Solaris
> Danek> needs into the main distribution over the years. It might be
> Danek> instructive to ask how he maintained Solaris sendmail before a
> Danek> new drop was an easy thing to take in.
>
> Back in 1997 I did the port of SMI-8.6 forward to 8.8, and renamed it
> from SMI-{version} to {version}+Sun, which seemed more accurate and more
> intuitive. There was a partial port for SMI-8.6 from its 8.6.10 base to
> 8.7.1, which was mostly complete, but then I had to update it thru the
> entire 8.7 series (1 thru 6), and again for 8.8 and its series (0 thru 8).
>
> I took this hair-ball and used `diff -u` to create a giant patch.
Where did you stored the patch? In the sendmail CVS at Sun?
Josh
