Subject: Re: install/28400
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: James Chacon <jmc@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/24/2004 23:36:17
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 11:53:53AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> 
>    Synopsis: latest change to use NetBSD logos in xdm was apparently not tested on 1.6.x
>    
>    State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
>    State-Changed-By: jmc@netbsd.org
>    State-Changed-When: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:18:37 +0000
>    State-Changed-Why:
>    xsrc on 1.6 has it's own branch and is maintained there. If you want to use
>    the -current xsrc that's fine, but there are no guarentees for it to work with
>    the branch "as-is". The branched xsrc for 1.6 does build fine.
> 
> 
> hmm?  xsrc has always supposed to be portable to the previous release.
> the xsrc branches are for specific releases, and are not maintained
> really beyond that.
> 
> 
> i think this PR should be re-opened and fixed.
> 

This is a set list problem (from reading the original PR). That never gets
maintained as -current set lists match -current. Changing distrib/... on
the 1.6 branch to match anything except the 1.6 branched tree's is just
wrong.

James