Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:01:48 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Reducing the pressure |
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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.
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> 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
-- 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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