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SubjectRe: Reducing the pressure
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be> asks:
> : Is it possible to have several `flavors' of Linux at once that can easily be
> : kept in sync?
>
> Yes and no. I can, and will, provide all the help that it is possible for a
> tool to provide. So I can make the question "what is in X but not in Y"
> very easy to ask. You still have to pull the stuff from one to the other
> and do the intergration.
>
> How this is implemented is by using named lines of development - in your
> case, that's likely to be overlapped but occasionally diverging LODs.

...

> For you, I suspect that you will periodically want to suck over the
> linux-dev stuff into the X_arch LOD so that you can stay up todate.
> At some point, you are going to generate a series of X-arch patches that
> will be submitted to the linux-dev LOD for inclusion.
>
> Does this help?

Yes it does. Thanks!

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium



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