Distribution of bugfixes (was: Re: The Internet Virus--Another issue)
Snoopy T. Beagle
snoopy at sopwith.UUCP
Tue Nov 29 04:51:48 AEST 1988
In article <1988Nov19.235026.29419 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
|In article <2490 at aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> trn at aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo) writes:
|>I don't wish to pick on SUN alone. It would sure be nice if vendors could
|>maintain a system on the network, reachable via anonymous ftp, containing
|>the patched sources/objects/binaries for bugs found in their operating
|>systems...
|
|There would be some small licensing problems with this, given that not
|everybody on the network is licensed for the same stuff.
There could be a seperate account for each package, and the login/password
could be supplied with the package. A bit more work this way, but probably
less than FedEx-ing tapes all over creation. You'd probably want both a ftp
version and a uucp version with an 800 number.
This still leaves the problem of making sure all the sites know about the
bugfix. :-(
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