SUMMARY: patch conflicts

From: Harold A. Miller (Hal.Miller@mel.dit.csiro.au)
Date: Thu Jul 22 1993 - 03:31:50 CDT


I have a partial answer, but am still a little lost regarding the remainder.
My posting:

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> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 93 14:47:28 EST
> Message-Id: <199307200447.AA14207@shark.mel.dit.csiro.au>
> Subject: patch conflicts
>
> G'day all,
>
> I am about to apply some patches to 4.1.3 on a variety of sun4 machines.
> I have a very large collection of patches (ftp.mel.dit.csiro.au:/pub/sun-dist)
> and have spent lots of time culling readmes. Two pairs I cannot resolve:
>
> 100272-05 of 19th March 93
> 100752-01 of 15th September 92
> These are in.comsat. The first deals with the 8-character login name,
> and the second with MAXIDLE > 1200 seconds. Both replace only the
> file /usr/etc/in.comsat
>
> 100297-02 of 11th December 92
> 100813-01 of 4th December 92
> These two both replace yacc, one /bin/yacc and /bin/yaccpar, the
> other /usr/bin/yacc. /bin is, of course, a link to /usr/bin.
>
> Which do I use, which do I ignore? The readme files say nothing.
>
> Also, what is the status on 100564-05? When is the replacement due out?
> Should I apply 100338 instead? (It conflicts, but if I'm not applying 564...)

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It turns out that 100272-06 came out (25th June 1993), incorporating 100752.
The in.comsat situation is resolved: use 100272-06.

Nobody had any ideas on the yacc situation (except 'try one, then the other,
and choose'). I'll write the Sun help line (I've been paying for service
for years, and never contacted them........)

The 564-05 patch is definitely "bad", but nobody seems to know when a
replacement will be available. It appears, from my poking around, and from
the one individual who also did so, that the comment in 564-05 about
conflicting with 338 is probably a typo. Hopefully the new 564 patch will
correct that so we'll know which patch actually does conflict!

Thanks to:

neef@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Micha Neef
Chris.Drake@corp.sun.com (Chris Drake)
Pat Cain (Denver) <pjc@denver.ssds.COM>
glenn@uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell)

If anyone else has an idea about either the yacc or 564-05 situation,
please don't hesitate to write!

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