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oss637a

From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: Re: oss637a platform?
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:50:02 GMT
References: <9h81ih$o75$1@suaar1ab.prod.compuserve.com> 

Bob Bailin wrote:

> Instructions for oss637a (oss637a.ltr) indicate that it's for OSR 5.05 only.
> 
> When installing the supplement, the component description indicates that it's
> for 500 thru 506.
> 
> Which is to be believed?

'Tis a tangled web...

The fix for this problem was included in OSR506.  In fact, the binary in
oss637a is identical to the one on a 506+rs506a system I checked, which
I know has not had oss637a installed on it.  I don't know whether the
identical binary actually came from the base 506 install or from rs506a.

oss637a was packaged with a tool which attempts (to varying degrees of
success) to build custom+ patches which are installable on the entire
range of OSR5 releases.

oss637a was _targeted_ at 505; that is, at all the currently supported
releases which did not already contain the fix.  That means it's
documented for, and was tested on, only OSR505.  However, the
multi-patch tool that built the supplement is fairly successful on
simple patches like this (all it does is replace one binary,
/etc/popper).  So even though it wasn't tested, the supplement will
_probably_ work on 5.0.[024].  It can also almost certainly be
successfully installed and removed on 5.0.6, but will have no actual
effect since it's just replacing a binary with itself.

>Bela<

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