Re: ISC's EoL dhcp suite, including dhcpd

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> The impression I had formed was that once a NetBSD version was old
>> enough (something like two or three major versions), things like the
>> patches necessary to adapt something to that version were *gone*.  I
>> must have just not dug deep enough.

>   they remain in cvs history and on branches.  they are just removed
>   from HEAD.

That's good.  My impression was that they were no longer kept at all.

> and, doctrine says -- but people often don't -- that patches to make
> the foo upstream project build on NetBSD should be filed with foo.
> So the "need patches" problem is only when that didn't happen or foo
> isn't healthy.

Well, only if "interested in adopting patches for NetBSD" is a
necessary component of "healthy", which, as much as I might wish
otherwise, is not always fair.

I look at some of my stuff and think about how I'd react if someone
tried to treat me as upstream and get me to adopt, say, patches for, to
pick something of a spectrum, Ubuntu, or ASAP, or Haiku, or Amoeba.  At
some point I would probably start replying, in essence, "I don't care
enough about that for it to be worth the effort of maintaining the
resulting changes, especially since I can't test them myself".

>> [...]  I thought everything was thrown away once the underlying OS
>> was old enough (where, of course, "old enough" varies).
> If you mean "can i use HEAD with wicked old netbsd",

No, not HEAD.  Thrown away, as in, not available from pkgsrc at all.
If all it takes is checking out an old rev, that's fine with me.

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